¶ … Violent Crimes
Criminology
Crime analysis and crime investigation are the methods by which criminologists study and prevent crime. Violent crimes pose multiple dangers to the public. Violent crimes are often complex and require resources to understand how the crime was committed. Criminology studies not only how crimes are committed, but also the study of the criminal behaviors and personalities of the criminals who commit violent crimes. Criminology has been made exceptionally popular in the late 20th century and early 21st century in many television dramas. The increase in attention to criminology and criminologists has influence the interest in criminology as well as influence the development of criminologists' tools and methods. This paper will examine the violent crime of murder briefly and offer insight as to methods by which the crime can be analyzed.
Criminologists studying murders and murderers absolutely use prescriptive interviews. Interviewing murderers has become part and parcel of the analysis of violent crimes, particularly when it comes to murder. Criminologists rely on interviewing when dealing with murderers for several reasons. The interview provides insights to the murderer's behavior, the murderer's perspective...
In this way, as more and more murderers are interviewed, criminologists can compose profiles. Snyder interviews Manson as a way to understand him and use his experiences to help the audience reflect upon their own characters. If the author were applying prescriptive interviewing to Manson, the primary use of the interview would be to understand Manson's background and how it influences or manifests itself in his current criminal behaviors. Manson is an extreme and rare case. He is infamous and he is willing to speak to the media. The information gathered in interviews with Manson undoubtedly influence future classification of crimes, criminals, and legislation toward such crimes and criminals. Manson is a criminal legend to both criminals who emulate him and to criminologists who study criminals like him.
Criminals of all sorts share similar backgrounds and character traits. Therefore, interviewing murderers helps criminologists provide databases of criminal behaviors, backgrounds, and traits. This database of profiles can assist criminologists studying current, open cases as well as cases that have been long since closed. Furthermore, hopefully, the profiles based on prescriptive interviews can help…
