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4.1: Overview, Objectives, and Key Terms
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4.2: Critical Thinking
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4.3: Introduction to Criminal Investigation
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4.4: Collecting Evidence
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In this module, we will look at the role the police/law enforcement plays in collecting evidence for presentation in the trial. As we progress in this course, you will see how vital it is that officers understand the rights of suspects and the importance of following criminal court processes and procedures. If an officer fails to properly collect evidence, that evidence could be excluded from the court and a guilty person could go free.
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4.5: Criminal Profiling
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Criminal profiling is synonymous with offender profiling both of which are useful investigative tools used in policing (Woodhams and Toye, 2007). Profiling’s purpose is to identify likely suspects that are correlated with criminal characteristics and patterns. Berg (200) maintains that a Psychological profiler relies heavily upon perpetrators' methods of operation or evidence left at a crime scene to identify a person’s personality or state of mind.
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4.6: Racial Profiling
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4.7: Terry Stops
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4.8: A Critical Look at Terry Stops
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