Essays on Detectives

Abstract

Criminal profiling is a controversial method and has been among the major developments in criminal psychology. It has increasingly become prominent in criminal investigations and has been identified as among the most potent tool in criminal investigation if it used correctly. It used in the analysis of crimes analyzing the behavior of criminals, their personality and motives behind the crimes. The process involves a complex process, which calls for meticulous, intelligence and organization. Some of the dangerous criminals are competent in their actions creating difficulties for police and detectives to trace them. Therefore, this topic is an important aspect in understanding ...

Criminal Law

Abstract This paper will provide the guideline or procedure for two undercover detectives to their first Ruckus Society training camp on the do’s and don’ts during criminal investigation based on the permissible limits provided by law. The paper will discuss the constraints, legal and ethical ramifications of undercover police task while infiltrating the Ruckus Society training camps. The criteria had been established beforehand to serve as the policy for the two undercover officers with regard to intervention and preventing the commission of crimes to which they have personal knowledge. At the same time, there will be ...

Introduction

This submission seeks to analyze the decision in Mapp v. Ohio and bring out the facts of that case, highlighting the similarities and differences in facts between the case and the fact pattern. It will then highlight the rules that the United States Supreme Court developed in deciding Mapp v. Ohio and apply the same to the fact pattern in a bid to arrive at a decision consistent with the legal principle of stare decisis. In the Mapp’s case, police in Ohio got wind of a bombing suspect and an illegal gambling machine that were in Mapp’s house. When ...

Introduction:

This paper is a case study about a crime that occurred at Old Annapolis Road, Columbia on 11th March 2000 at 0030 hours. The nature of the crime was homicide and the victim of the crime was a teenager by the names Ashley Nicole Smith. She was found brutally murdered by stabbing in a pool of her own blood in a wooden area that was located just behind 9170 Old Annapolis Road. The suspected murderers of the teen were Scott Roy Jones and Frederick James Johnson. This paper analyses how investigations were conducted from the time her body was found. It also discusses the ...

Psychological principles

It was during our usual visit to the park and after a long walk, we decided to take some cold drinks at a nearby restaurant. While we were taking our drinks with my friend, we saw some interesting news on the local paper Cedar Rapids (AP) and we decided to borrow the paper so that we can get the news clearly. According to the paper, detectives had arrested a second person who was believed to have been involved in the slaying of 50 ducks at a children’s Zoo in Cedar Rapids. This news was shocking from the first instance while on the ...

The case involved one Kaupp Robert who had been implicated in a case involving the disappearance of a teenage girl. Investigations by the sheriff department had indicated that the girl was having a sexual relationship with her half brother; this brother was in the company of Kaupp on the day the girl disappeared. After a long period of interrogation the half brother confessed to killing the girl and at the same time made claims that Kaupp was also involved in the crime. Being unable to obtain a warrant to interrogate Kaupp, the detectives confronted Kaupp at his house a day after he had been implicated ...

Abstract

It goes without say that the fight against terrorism has been taken a notch higher by the US forces. Major works are being done towards the upholding of a strong and reputable tactical response to terrorism by the various agencies and most notably by the New York Police Department. Through the richness of information that the various websites (particularly the agencies’ websites) offer, one is left with more answers than questions and amazement on the beauty of their structure and organization. The fact that these agencies have continually worked in synchrony with each other is highly commendable as it can be emulated ...

Fictional crime shows and real crime shows share some similarities as well differences. For example, both shows attempt to unlock the mystery of crime scenes in a logical and systematic manner. Nevertheless, fictional crime shows also differ significantly from real crime shows. The differences arise in terms of the tools used for investigation, and the period required to solve the issues under investigation.

A good example of a real crime show is First 48. In season 10, episode 6, the detectives attempt to resolve the murder of a 28-year-old man stabbed to death while working in a smoke shop. In order to resolve ...

Interviewing the special population and in this scenario the elderly usually poses a great challenge to detectives and investigators due to a number of factors. Collection of evidence especially through interview of witnesses is critical to the criminal justice system and when the complainant or a witness happens to be an elderly person or persons, proper techniques of interviewing them have to be employed to ensure that no stone is left unturned. About 13 percent of the population of the United States of America comprises elderly persons aged 65 years old and over. This is approximately 40 million people and for ...

The scenario as given is a true representation of the typical day to day encounters of crimes by the detectives. The scenario depicts the crime of Burglary (House Breaking) which can generally be defined as the breaking and entering a house or dwelling or building or residence with the intent to commit a crime. However, the different Criminal Codes of the States of the United States of America have various variations of the definition of Burglary and/or Housebreaking. Sneaky Peat broke into Alison Collins’ house and left with a laptop, iPod and other things which perfectly fall within the definition of burglary or ...

Over the last year, the actions and acts of police forces across the country have been the focus of public, mass media and government scrutiny. Unfortunately, that attention has not been very positive. Indeed, most of the attention have resulted in citizens and officials both calling into question the credibility and integrity of police, particularly in relation to police interaction with minority groups. One of the explanations that people are saying has led to the current circumstances with police forces is that there is a lack of supervision, leadership and management of police officers on the street. While the legitimacy ...

Eventually, Ted Bundy was "fried" on the electric chair in Florida in 1989. A local, shouted to the onlookers that crowded the prison gates that day: "turn off your coffee makers, all the electricity will be needed here today!" Ted Cowell was raised in a perfectly fine, absolutely normal family, with loving parents and 4 other siblings. Well, according to him. However, the official version is a little bit different. He was born to a single mom, which at that time was considered to be despicable, thus, his grandparents, took him in as his son, and he grew up thinking that ...

Introduction

A private investigator is frequently shortened to PI and casually referred as a private eye. An inquiry agent or private detective is an individual that can be employed by a person or groups to take on exploratory law services (Rigakos, 2008). Private investigators or detectives regularly work for attorneys in civil matters. The very few skilled private investigators work together with defense attorneys on major punishment and defense of criminal cases. Private investigators are, therefore, private citizens having different types of experience and training. Investigators look for, collect, gather, scrutinize, and establish substantiation in criminal and civil cases for insurance companies, ...

Introduction

Neighborhood study is the examination of the amenities, living conditions and the general environment of a residential estate from a critical perspective. Sheepshead Bay is a residential neighborhood in Brooklyn in New York. The neighborhood features low and medium rise residential apartments ideal for families. The most outstanding feature in the neighborhood is the bay where fishing activities and water transport facilities are available. The critical review of the neighborhood will be tempered by concepts of architectural design and the effects of their interaction with the environment. These are concepts defined by David woods and Gary Hack in their respective books. Although ...

United States v. Leon 468 U.S. 897 (1984) In August 1981, Burbank police received information from a confidential informant about the drug activity of two suspects. Based on that information, the police initiated an extensive surveillance of the residence and persons mentioned by the informant as being involved. Police surveillance revealed a number of others persons, most with criminal records, entering and leaving the surveilled residence with “packages” of varying sizes. A police learned that one of the persons seen at the residence had listed an Alberto Leon as his employer. A check of Leon’s record revealed that he ...

It is worth to record, without fear of retribution from the public opinion that Edgar Allan Poe was one of the founder writers of detective series. In the inaugural work The Murders in the Rue Morgue he author introduces the detective C. Auguste Dupin, who did a marvellous job in trying to put matters into perspective to unravel the mysteries around the murder that occurred. Later on, Sir Arthur Canon Doyle followed in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe, in terms of thematic and literary approach (Doyle, 3). A practical instance is in the book titled Conan Doyle's text A ...

Introduction This paper outlines and in details explains how the modern –day Holmes applies or extends the cinematic concepts borrowed from the early classical conventions of Conan Doyle. The comparison and contrast are crucial in understanding whether changes, extensions or imitation of the previous works have altered or improved the literature. Therefore, this rhetorical analysis is geared towards examining the characters, scenes, settings, plots, themes, and literature style of the two chronologically divided works. Because written texts and TV series are meant to satisfy the target audience, the bottom-line of scenic details is to pass the messages to the ...

False Confession

A false confession refers to an admission of guilt by a suspect whereas the confessor is not responsible for the offence charged. Such an event can be as a result of incompetency on the part of the accused, insanity or may as well be induced through coercion. The story of the Norfolk Four as depicted through the film, The Confessions, is a classic case of false confession by the accused persons who were consequently convicted. It is also critical to note as evident in the film that the Norfolk Four waived their rights as laid down in the Miranda case. The possibility ...

The Story “The God of Dark Laughter” is the one I found as the best example of a slipstream fiction. I found the setting, narrative voice, and allusions to popular culture and mainstream literature that are used in the story as the most captivating of all the other stories. The setting of the occurrences in the story is strange, eerie and raises issues that border on fantasy, literary fiction and reality. The setting involves the discovery of a body in the woods by two boys who had spent some time in the same woods hunting squirrels. The body that is ...

In the year 2008, a young woman Casey Anthony was accused a first-degree murder of her two year old daughter Caylee .She was also charged with other offences which include; aggravated manslaughter, providing false information to the law enforcement and aggravated child abuse. Casey Anthony was accused of providing false information by pleading not guilty of the charges and that the baby was kidnapped by a baby sitter .The case drew a lot of media attention and this forced the judge to keep the location of the jury selection secret for a very long time. The charges against Anthony gained ground due to the ...

“What happens when wrong feels right and right feels wrong? When situations that appear to be black and white turn out to be gray?” (The Literary Analyst).The bygone philosophy of novelists writing what they desire stands firm. For me, a director holds the same status when it comes to films, in fact all artists irrespective of their desired form of art should have the liberty to think and make people do the same. This perfectly sounds true of Ben Affleck’s triumphant and remarkable debut in Gone Baby Gone (2007), which is an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s heavily ...

The genre of film noir is an expansion of the classic Hollywood genre of film known as the crime film. The crime film persists as one of the most popular and enduring of all types of Hollywood films - ever since the sound era, it has remained a particularly potent and popular genre (Leitch 1). As the years have progressed, the noir film has been replaced with the neo-noir - a modern film genre which takes the trappings of noir and places them outside of its typical comfort zone. In the case of 2010's Winter's Bone, the typical film noir detective ...

The influence of media on criminals and killers has been oft-publicized; regardless of the positions people take on the extent to which film, television and other mass media influences our collective unconscious, it is clear that certain genres or portrayals of sex and violence in popular culture heavily influence our personalities, attitudes and preferences (Seltzer 2007). To that end, the exploration of these types of media is an essential part of exploring the psychology of the killer, serial or otherwise. For the past century, film has become an important part of our new cultural mythology; movie characters become our ...

He is mysterious and chameleonic; charismatic and restless; feared and appreciated, but most of all, he is a genius of solving crimes. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most known fictional detectives in the world, a charming character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and transposed throughout the years in various mediums: cinema, TV series, comic strips, short stories, etc. The various adaptations that were created for the character, and for Conan Doyle’s writings, transpose differently Sherlock Holmes. While some of the character’s features are maintained and transposed with accuracy, creating a faithful image of the original Sherlock Holmes, ...

I watched a clip called “Is there a Bomb?” from the film Man on a Ledge. The director is Asger Leth. The production designer is Alec Hammond. The art director is David Swayze.

Directors turn the script into the action on screen (“Film Director”). Directors are responsible for “casting, script editing, shot composition, shot selection, and editing” (“Film Director”). Directors must have creative vision regarding bringing the story to life. Casting the right actors to bring characters to life is crucial. Actors must be believable in their role. Editing the script to make the story flow better helps audiences understand the message ...

“While it is common to think of America as an urban society, significant parts of the country remain outside major cities” (RURAL AND SMALL-TOWN LAW ENFORCEMENT (police), n.d.). The task of the Rural City Police Department is to impose regulation around the neighborhood, eradicate corruption, and cooperate beside the people to resolving their difficulties, namely vigorously take part in community patrolling. The dream of the Rural City Police Department is to develop the top state establishment in law administration. The objectives that have been placed to come are: safeguard the uppermost excellence of life for the peoples, stop wrongdoing, ...

Forensic psychology may be defined as the application of psychology to the system of criminal justice. Forensic psychologists search deeply and laboriously into the vast perspectives of psychology and apply them to the system of criminal justice. These issues weave together the topics of law and psychology; they are also essential to the forensic psychology discipline. The knowledge of forensic psychology is used in different forms. These forms include treatment of mentally ill offenders, analysis of the behavior and intent of the offender, and their practice within the civil arena (Study House, 171).

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Introduction

The Zodiac Killer: AKA the Silenced Badge is a book by Lyndon E. Lafferty that seeks to give the true identity of the Zodiac killer. The actual topic of the book is The Zodiac Killer: Cover-Up: The Silenced Badge. In his book, he outlines the reasons why no officer who knew the story dared to testify. Included in the book are the specific people who were the masterminds behind the act of concealing the Zodiac despite the evidence that led to him. It is a series of a high ranking corruption and dirty political games. Lyndon E. Lafferty mentions all that were ...

In the passage Spade Archer, Dashiell Hammett uses lengthy description of the physical attributes of characters to create a long-lasting impression on the mind of the reader. For example, the author’s description of Sam Spade is interesting because of the manner in which Sam’s mean-looking frame is brought out. Hammett says, “Spades jaw was long, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v.he looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan” (2). Apart from grabbing the attention of the reader, the vivid description makes the character appear ...

Scenario 1

Accept. According to the city ordinance rules, it is considered a crime to display any symbol that may have an effect f arousing anger or resentment. The stipulations further indicate that this should not be allowed on the basis of color, creed and gender. Spreading hate messages and propaganda is illegal in that it significantly contributes to increased violence in a locality. Using graffiti, vandalism and burning crosses with the intention of creating a climate that is characterized by fear among the members of the community is a crime punishable by law. Citizens have the right to stay in a conducive environment free from ...

In this presentation, I will be making a presentation to the court seeking an arrest warrant against one Damien Jones following the murder of Paul “Shorty” Alcorn. I have sufficient evidence to enable me to present a prima facie case against the said accused person. That evidence ranges from police reports regarding the homicide, police reports regarding the robbery with violence; we have forensic reports and also the analysis of the forensic reports. In the analysis of the forensic reports, we will be looking at the various pieces of evidence including documentary evidence. We also have the various property records of ...

Police crime control policies

Crime control is paramount for the economic development of any civilized society. The political stability of any nation is measured by the crime rate. Countries that have low crime rates are more attractive to investors and business leaders. The crime rate in the United States of America was high in the 1990s. The cities were controlled by criminal gangs and at times the fights between criminal gangs took place in the streets. The frequency of homicides was relatively high. The residential places were not spared from crime related violence. Law enforcement officers were criticized for being weaklings. The police ...

Introduction

Whalter White, Steve McGarrett, Gregory House and many others are amongst the most favorite fictional anti-heroes from the television series shown in today’s 21st century. They are not heroes because they do not possess the traditional heroic characteristics like perfection, brilliance, strength, etc but they are not villains either because they are not evil, immoral and diabolical. Anti-heroes first look like very wicked, uncaring, selfish or immoral but as their stories progresses, viewers get to learn how twisted their personalities are and what are the reasons behind it. They seem to purse adverse actions but their hearts are ...

Introduction

The Last Express is a tale of the work of a blind detective, who does his investigation in a manner that ordinary detectives could not compare. The story started after the lead actor, Duncan Maclain was blinded during World War I, but that did not stop him from investigating criminal activities. The changes featured in the book included that of living as a blind person, despite having been sighted before. More importantly, the irreversible nature of the change appears to be the main focus of the book, mainly because he is able to do criminal investigations, more effectively than the many detectives that ...

The hard-boiled detective seems a decidedly modern invention – the noir gumshoe who cynically navigates a world that seems to conspire against him, working his way through a seedy culture that he can capitalize upon. With hard-boiled detectives in film and literature, there is often a measure of moral ambiguity, as the main character is conflicted between what he does for a living and who he wants to be, or is otherwise blind to the harsher truths that surround him. Roman Polanski’s classic 1974 noir film Chinatown certainly fits this description, with Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes being a dark, morose yet deeply motivated human ...

There are various approaches of women and feminism in the literature of the early 20th century. For depicting the feminine psych, authors use various literary devices for allowing readers to enter the mind of their characters. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifle” uses symbolism and irony for resenting her character, Mrs. Wright and for illustrating her hardships that drove her to murdering her husband. Moreover, after studying Glaspell’s “Trifle”, the manner in which she develops the narration indicates that she considers Mrs. Wright’s action as justified. Mrs. Wright, a character of the early 20th century, resembles Kate Chopin’s Mrs. ...

The Police

In this paperwork, I am going to discuss the video, the confession, depicting the positive or notable actions portrayed by the police and any issues with police behavior that cause my concern. I will also discuss any illegal or unconstitutional acts by the police, therefore, specifying the constitutional Amendments the police actions may have violated. The Confession is a video written and directed by Ofra Bikel. The video revolves in the context of the rape and murder of Michelle. Daniel William, Michelle neighbors, called the 911 after the incident had happened so as to establish the cause of the ...

Law enforcement occurs as one of the most pertinent matters of concern in the United States. This can be attributed to the fact that division of powers, as well as the checks and balances enshrined to each branch of government tend to constrain each other. The United States Constitution dictates that the powers of the federal government are limited to those spelt out in the Constitution. Despite this, there is a need to note that the recent past has experience a rise in cases where the federal law enforcement has encroached on roles enshrined to other agencies, especially the police. This ...

As highlighted by the United States penal code, murder is classified as a crime. Whether it is in the first degree, second or third, it is still a crime that is punishable by law. In addition, armed robbery is a felony that is considered serious in nature because it poses a danger to the victims. In addition, murder can be classified into instigated murder under manslaughter. Criminal acts are acts that are against the law. The criminal act in question is a case that involved the murder of two store owners during a robbery incident in a Chicago store. The robbery was done by a man called ...

The internet provides a platform where individuals have the ability of remaining anonymous trading insults, while other people publishes confessional memoirs and articles without the fear of being recognized. However, this identity less platform provides a perfect alibi where criminals engage in criminal activities. Therefore, law enforcers have been forced to adopt new technologies to find a solution to crimes committed off and online. For example, researchers have postulated that a detailed analysis and penetration of the internet contents on social media and various other platforms plays an imperative role in solving terrorists and murder plots. This is conducted through a revelation of the ...

The novel "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the first book in a series about a female vampire hunter named Anita Blake. Anita is an animator, a term used to refer to someone with the powers of necromancy, or the ability to bring the dead back to life. She raises the dead as a profession and is usually paid by a family who want to gain closure with dead relatives, although Anita is sometimes also hired by the police and government agencies to raise the dead in order to solve crimes or handle sticky legal issues. Through her job as an animator she ...

Watson appreciates the test from a chemical point of view, but fails to see any practical utilization of it. His doubts are quickly shattered by Holmes’s explanation of the test’s significance in a crime investigation as he points out that: “had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes” (Doyle, ASIS 16). Given the fact that branches of Forensics medicine such as blood stain pattern analysis or forensics toxicology arose in the second half of the nineteenth century (“forensic medicine”), Holmes is a fictional ...

Overview

The second half of summer, 1982. Five women were found strangled to death at the Green river banks in King County, Washington. During the investigation, the detectives found out that all they were prostitutes. They were working nearby. All the women were announced to be lost for some time already. This was only the beginning. In the next several years, more and more girls have been found along the Green River banks and in the woods nearby. If the first five murders made investigators suspect a serial killer in the King County, now there was no doubt about that. Sometimes ...

Latin American autochthonous mystery fiction happens to be a rarity, although Americans readers have avidly devoured plenty of translations of foreign whodunits or detective stories. Thus, “Who Killed Palomino Molero?” by Mario Vargas Llosa is an archetypal example of a non-English detective novel, written after the Latin American Literary Boom of the 1960s. However, Llosa happens to have quite a neat and skillful hand at detective fiction, has proven from the previous novels that he has written, such as “'The Perpetual Orgy.” On the surface, it seems that Llosa fulfills the requirements of the detective fiction genre, his novel moving at a slow ...

A private investigator is an individual charger with other persons or organizations to perform surveillance, research and investigatory law services. Examples of services undertaking by private investigators include doing investigatory work for attorneys in civil cases, insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims and defense attorneys in criminal defense and capital punishment cases. Couples have also been known to seek the services of private investigators to provide evidence of adultery hence establishing grounds for divorce. This was and continues to be one of the most profitable ventures that private investigators undertake since what is at stake is highly valuable including ...

The trial of Priscilla Van Acker

Introduction (Abstract) As the prosecuting attorney in this case, it is imperative to reiterate the fact that my brief essentially entails ensuring that the ends of justice are met. In that breadth, I wish to submit that it is not justice if the interests of the complainant and indeed in this case the prosecution are served without due consideration of the accused’s interests. Ideally, balancing the two contrasting and conflicting interests would be the most essential in this case. That notwithstanding I wish to deliver my side of the bargain. It is my contention that indeed the ...

John Leonard Orr was born in April 26, 1949. He was an investigator and worked for the Glendale Fire Department in Sothern California. He also worked as a fire captain. Orr had a passion of being a police officer ever since he was a young person. His dreams did not come true after he failed the entrance exam. He decided to become a dedicated fire investigator and he committed himself to further his fire career. The work of a firefighter investigator is to do investigation in the causes of fire. The firefighters reported the cause and origin of the fire. The job of the firefighters ...

Leslie is a story about a woman who claims to have been wrongly convicted or accused of murder. The case about murder happened long time ago back in the year 1989 in California. However, despite of the case happening in the year mentioned, the accused was not arrested until the year 1997 when She was charged with murder. On the other hand, the Carla’s story is all about a lady by the name Carla who was a seventh grade year at the time she attends a sacred Heart school which was located a few miles from school. Carla is a lady who had only lived ...

The other night, I was watching an episode of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie. This program details the life of an emergency room nurse who is a drug addict. In the past year, she has had her husband leave her and try to take custody of the children from her because of her habit and has worked hard to keep her life together. In this episode, a young African-American male is in the emergency room because of a car accident. He is unhurt, but he was carrying some drugs in the car with him to take to a party. To avoid any police ...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Course name’ Automated Blood Pattern Analysis and Crime Scene Analysis Like any branch of forensic science, blood pattern analysis is a tool used to discover facts related to a specific crime. Analyzing a blood pattern is more of an art than a science and an experienced analyst can infer many details towards solving the crime or identifying the assailant. This analysis can lead out to many important details such as - Nature of weapon - Nature of injuries suffered - The time period in which the crime occurred - Whether the assailant was left handed or right ...

The story begins with Detective Willaim Somerset, looking for his ideal countryside cabin, where he plans to live after his premature retirement, away from the filth and decay of the unnamed city in the story. This is where he cuts out a picture of a rose from the wallpapers, with his switchblade, making an unsaid promise to go back to the innocent life after his retirement, which is to come in another 6 days. In the city, Somerset meets Detective David Mills, an ambitious young Detective who had forced a transfer from a quiet town to hell-hole of a city, where they investigate ...

Directing

For my directing concept, I chose Martin McDonough's The Pillowman - the tale of Katurian, a horror story author who finds himself being arrested by a totalitarian police state for murders that closely follow his horrific short stories. Being put in a cell with his brother Michal, he starts to recount his stories to both him and the detectives interrogating him, figuring out exactly what happened to him in his childhood and the murders that mirror his stories. My concept would revolve around a black box-style presentation, proscenium-style, with Katurian's scenes with Michal downstage, the cramped interrogation room upstage left with the detectives, ...

“This is a book about the positive evidence that evolution is a fact. It is not intended as an anti-religious book. I’ve done that, it’s another T-shirt, this is not the place to wear it again,” says Dr. Richard Dawkins in the introduction to his book The Greatest Show on Earth (17). This book is an organized presentation of copious numbers of the examples that support the evolutionary change over time via the process of natural selection. It raises many issues to a reader’s mind, and it helps provide a fuller understanding of the theory of evolution for the reader. ...

For my directing concept, I chose Martin McDonough's The Pillowman - the tale of Katurian, a horror story author who finds himself being arrested by a totalitarian police state for murders that closely follow his horrific short stories. Being put in a cell with his brother Michal, he starts to recount his stories to both him and the detectives interrogating him, figuring out exactly what happened to him in his childhood and the murders that mirror his stories. I believe this play would make a wonderful addition to any given season of Mosaic Theatre or any other participating and willing theater in the ...

The neo-noir genre consists primarily of films produced and set in the modern day which still follow the basic narrative and/or cinematic conventions of 1940s and 1950s film noir (Naremore 298). These types of films also follow detective-like characters investigating crimes and infiltrating the seedy underbelly of various criminal underworlds, but they also carry an undercurrent of modern cultural attitudes and perspectives. In the case of 2005's noir comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the characters fit into fairly standard noir archetypes, while bringing a postmodern malaise and self-aware knowledge of noir tropes to the proceedings. This results in a terrifically funny ...

“I see no more than you, but have trained myself to notice what I see” (Doyle 132). These famous words of Private Investigator Sherlock Holmes have inspired me since I was a young child. The stories of Holmes, Father Brown, and shows like C.S.I., Law & Order, and N.C.I.S, as well as the encouragement from others has made it clear to me that Private Investigation is my passion and future career. At first, my family was concerned about my preoccupation with investigation, but they were always supportive of my enthusiasm. My mom would pack me a lunch and I would get ...

Criminal Profiling

Criminal profiling is also called offender profiling, and is a strategy of using existing information on a crime and crime scenes to come up with a psychological depiction of the perpetrator or criminal (Holmes and Holmes, 2008). It is considered the third wave in criminal investigation where the criminal’s psyche is identified. According to Holmes & Holmes, (2008), the three aims of this procedure are: providing law enforcers with psychological and social assessment of a criminal; providing a mental evaluation of belongings the offender might have; and to give approaches and recommendations for interviewing. Profiling aims at producing the description of the 'criminal' in a ...