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Offender Profiling in the Courtroom

The Use and Abuse of Expert Witness Testimony

By: Norbert Ebisike

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Offender Profiling in the Courtroom

The Use and Abuse of Expert Witness Testimony

By: Norbert Ebisike

Offender profiling is mainly used by the police to narrow down suspects in cases where no physical evidence was left at a crime scene. Recently, however, this technique has been introduced into the courtroom as evidence, raising questions of its reliability, validity, and admissibility at trial. Because offender profiling was not originally intended to be used in the courtroom, its entrance there has caused both confusion and controversy. Offender Profiling in the Courtroom discusses the use of profiling evidence in criminal trials. Ebisike also covers the history, development, approaches to, and the legal aspects of this crime investigation technique. Several serial crime cases where investigators used offender profiling during the criminal proceedings are discussed, including the case of the New York Mad Bomber, George Metesky, who caused thirty-two bomb explosions in New York City between 1940 and 1956, and the case of Albert DeSalvo, known as the Boston Strangler, who carried out several sexually motivated murders in Boston, Massachusetts between 1962 and 1964. Ebisike demystifies offender profiling and raises awareness about the successes and the pitfalls of the process and its use at trial. Offender profiling is a crime investigation technique where information gathered from the crime scene, witnesses, victims (if alive), autopsy reports, and information about an offender's behavior is used to draw up a profile of the sort of person likely to commit such crime. Offender profiling does not point to a specific offender. It is based, instead, on the probability that someone with certain characteristics is likely to have committed a certain type of crime. In spite of the ever-increasing media interest in the use of offender profiling in criminal trials, this technique is still not well understood by many people, including judges, lawyers, and jurors, who weigh such evidence at trial. Some people see offender profiling as a tried and true method of identifying suspects, and others simply see it as a fiction. Here, the author helps readers understand the true nature of offender profiling and the danger of its admission into criminal cases as evidence.

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192

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313362114

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9780313362118

Caspar David Friedrich

1774-1840 : the Painter of Stillness

By: Norbert Wolf

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1774-1840 : the Painter of Stillness

By: Norbert Wolf

This book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.

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Taschen

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3822819581

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9783822819586

The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics

By: Norbert Paulo

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The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics

By: Norbert Paulo

The law serves a function that is not often taken seriously enough by ethicists, namely practicability. A consequence of practicability is that law requires elaborated and explicit methodologies that determine how to do things with norms. This consequence forms the core idea behind this book, which employs methods from legal theory to inform and examine debates on methodology in applied ethics, particularly bioethics. It is argued that almost all legal methods have counterparts in applied ethics, which indicates that much can be gained from comparative study of the two. The author first outlines methods as used in legal theory, focusing on deductive reasoning with statutes as well as analogical reasoning with precedent cases. He then examines three representative kinds of contemporary ethical theories, Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism, Jonsen and Toulmin’s casuistry, and two versions of consequentialism—Singer’s preference utilitarianism and Hooker’s rule-consequentialism—with regards to their methods. These examinations lead to the Morisprudence Model for methods in applied ethics.

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251

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Springer

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1137557346

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Laser Crystallization of Silicon - Fundamentals to Devices

By: Norbert H. Nickel

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Laser Crystallization of Silicon - Fundamentals to Devices

By: Norbert H. Nickel

This book on the Laser Crystallization of Silicon reviews the latest experimental and theoretical studies in the field. It has been written by recognised global authorities and covers the most recent phenomena related to the laser crystallization process and the properties of the resulting polycrystalline silicon. Reflecting the truly interdisciplinary nature of the field that the series covers, this volume will continue to be of great interest to physicists, chemists, materials scientists and device engineers in modern industry. - Valuable applications for industry, particularly in the fabrication of thin-film electronics - Each chapter has been peer reviewed - An important and timely contribution to the semiconductor literature

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Academic Press

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0080540945

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Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective

Festschrift for Dirk Berg-Schlosser

By: Norbert Kersting,Lasse Cronqvist

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Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective

Festschrift for Dirk Berg-Schlosser

By: Norbert Kersting,Lasse Cronqvist

The analysis of benchmarks and best practices is becoming more relevant. Political cultural aspects and the facets of democratization are central fields in Comparative Political Science. Juan Linz, Arend Lijphart, Charles Ragin and other well known political scientists describe the state of the art and new methodological approaches in the discipline.

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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

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3810041599

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9783810041593

Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

By: Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann

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Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

By: Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann

Good local governance" reflects the dual functions of local government. On the one hand, democratic regimes gain input legitimacy by responsiveness and by being inclusive towards the preferences of their citizens. On the other hand, they achieve output legitimacy by effectively delivering public goods and services. Their governance strategies follow three major paths - "decentralisation," "political administrative reforms" and "participatory reforms". But national contexts, actors, political culture and path dependency matter a lot. In this book continent-wide developments are compared by using relevant country studies. This comparative approach focuses on "developing countries" in Asia, Africa and Latin America, comparing and contrasting their experience with that of European countries

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193

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Springer-Verlag

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3531916866

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Electronic Democracy

By: Norbert Kersting

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Electronic Democracy

By: Norbert Kersting

The timely book takes stock of the state of the art and future of electronic democracy, exploring the history and potential of e-democracy in global perspective. Analysing the digital divide, the role of the internet as a tool for political mobilisation, internet Voting and Voting Advice Applications, and other phenomena, this volume critically engages with the hope for more transparency and political participation through e-democracy. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

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1013292618

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Caspar David Friedrich

1774-1840 : the Painter of Stillness

By: Norbert Wolf

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1774-1840 : the Painter of Stillness

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This book is about the paintings of Casper David Friedrich.

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Offender Profiling in the Courtroom

Offender Profiling in the Courtroom

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics

The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics

Laser Crystallization of Silicon - Fundamentals to Devices

Laser Crystallization of Silicon - Fundamentals to Devices

Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective

Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective

Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

Electronic Democracy

Electronic Democracy

Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich

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