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Showing posts with label
profiling
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December 27, 2012
"The best predictor of future behavior is …
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… past behavior." Past as prelude. So neat, so clean. So full of certitude. Like a fortune cookie Confucianism. Something you might...
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July 22, 2012
Aurora massacre: To speak or not to speak?
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The blood on the movie theater floor was still tacky when mental health professionals began pontificating on the psychology of the mass murd...
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April 21, 2011
Special journal issue on psychology-law available for free!
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A special issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science showcasing the latest psychological research applied to the legal system ha...
January 23, 2011
Arizona rampage: Analyzing the analyzers
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It's an endless loop tape, spinning us in a vortex of irrationality so all-encompassing it almost starts to seem normal. After every h...
November 16, 2010
No reliable method to determine pedophilia, study finds
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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/witness/201011/no-reliable-method-determine-pedophilia-study-finds Good news for sex deviants seeking ...
September 14, 2010
Backlash growing against criminal profiling
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UK Guardian: "Psychological profiling 'worse than useless' " In the beginning, there was Malcolm Gladwell's 2007 maste...
February 3, 2010
What is a gang?
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A group of violent thugs? A social club? Troubled, homeless losers who are "hard to love"? And what is gang membership? Is it a fi...
July 28, 2009
On police, profiling, and Henry Gates
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Guest essay by Sam Sommers* When it comes to matters of race, the problem with asking how much progress we've made is not that there is...
December 30, 2008
Will “revolutionary” Diana Screen end pedophile menace?
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Vatican enlisting psychologists to perform miracles The new movie Doubt paints the issue of pedophilic priests in shades of gray. Is the ...
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December 24, 2008
Criminal profiling strikes out again
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British case also features missteps by police, prosecutors, tabloid media In death, Rachel Nickell became an icon of the sexual brutalizatio...
October 19, 2008
Pseudoscience in policing
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The October issue of Criminal Justice and Behavio r is a special issue on Pseudoscientific Policing Practices and Beliefs . There are some g...
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