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Follow on Google News | ![]() Criminal Profiling: Separating Fact from FictionCriminal profiling is a great topic but it's also the source of major misconceptions. We are offering our visitors the opportunity to learn learn more about criminal profiling and forensic psychology.
By: David Webb The phenomenal success of the film The Silence of The Lambs in the early 1990s helped perpetuate the myth that psychology and forensic psychology in particular is primarily concerned with attempting to understand and profile the behavior of psychopathic serial offenders. Evaluating psychological impressions at a crime scene and generating a behavioral composite to reveal the key personality characteristics and motives of an unknown offender has become a staple ingredient of many other popular films and TV series e.g., criminal minds. It is not surprising, therefore, that many people not only incorrectly assume that forensic psychology is mostly concerned with criminal profiling but also that most forensic psychologists act as criminal profilers in the course of their work and that criminal profiling is a realistic career choice for a forensic psychology graduate. David Webb, Host and writer of the All About Forensic Psychology website knows from his time as a lecturer in forensic psychology how important it is to quickly establish the facts regarding criminal profiling. "The first thing I got my students to do was write down what they thought forensic psychology was...this was fine until I mentioned that they were not allowed to include the words serial killers or silence of the lambs, at which point most of the writing stopped!" The advice it would seem, therefore, especially if you are considering taking up a forensic psychology degree, is to ensure that you understand what forensic psychology is from an academic perspective; So what are you waiting for? Head over to the All About Forensic Psychology website and make the what is forensic psychology page your first port of call. Then take a look at the various criminal profiling pages. Finally, don't forget to check out the Criminal Profiling on Kindle collection, which consists primarily of the landmark articles written by members of the Behavioral Science Units, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, at the FBI Academy. These seminal publications in the history of FBI profiling were released by the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the information on serial killers provided by the FBI's Training Division. You can access this engrossing collection of articles at http://www.all- ... About The All About Website Portfolio: The All About Website Portfolio consists of three preeminent online information resources built around the teaching and research interests of the owner. The first website All About Forensic Psychology was launched in October 2005, the second All About Forensic Science in January 2007; and the third, All About Psychology in March 2008. The All About Website Portfolio Key Statistics: - Over 100,000 monthly unique visitors. - Over 4.5 million page views in 2010. - Over 4,000 content pages. - Over 6000 newsletter & mailing list subscribers. - Over 3,500 Twitter followers twitter.com/ - Over 37,000 facebook fans (facebook.com/ ... Company Contact Information David Webb, Owner, Writer and Host of The All About Website Portfolio: http://www.all- http://www.all- http://www.all- Company Contact Information The All About Website Portfolio David Webb 106 Calle Manuel De Falla Alicante 03189 Phone : 0034-966-774- # # # Written and regularly updated by a lecturer in psychology, this website is designed to help anybody looking for informed and detailed information on psychology. It also explores the most fascinating and compelling psychology related news and research. End
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