Case Assessment Handbook

Abstract

The paper explains the detail information of legal issues and their analysis. Investigator is responsible for gathering and collecting evidences on the crime conducted. In this scenario, case assessment handbook provides details of the past cases and their analysis in a more comprehensive manner. It also includes legal processes that the cases required and their thorough analysis of the evidences that have been collected. An investigator is not only responsible for collecting evidences but also present justice to the offenders and the victims of the crime in the court. The paper consists of some legal cases that require thorough analysis of the crime conducted, basic information of possible legal issues and in the end, conclusion bring the entire topic to the end.

Case Assessment Handbook

Introduction

Case assessment guidebook is a valuable referral instrument for professionals in the criminal and legal activities. The handbook provides guidance and support to professionals with a more general and comprehensive information in resolving critical and complex cases that involves vulnerable people. Assessment handbook is written and issued by the government or expert in the field. The book consists of details on past cases and their analysis and information about administrative and legal processes that can be useful in solving complex cases. It also includes original research and insights of law cases and legal issues concerning particular crime (Kipling, 2012).

Criminal justice is the application or the study of the laws on criminal behavior. People who study criminal justice are the police, working in the ability to have judicial powers and lawyers, along with defending and trying those accuse others of crime. It is important that the criminal justice system inspires the word justice, as laws applied to those accused of a crime should be fair (Walker, 1992).

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Discussion

Behavioral profiling is a set of investigative and behavioral tool that is useful for investigators to predict and identify the characteristics of the murderer or criminal. It is the complete report of the case that is to be resolved by the investigator. Behavioral profiling is also called as criminal personality profiling, behavioral profiling, criminological profiling or criminal investigative analysis.

Behavioral profiling highlights the three main points of the crime: law enforcement with psychological and social assessment, psychological evaluation of the criminal and the last purpose is to develop strategies and provide suggestions for the interview process.

Generally, there are many crimes that have been conducted and resolved on the basis of thorough analysis and study of the cases. Some of them are discussed below:

Murder Case Analysis

Generally, there are two main disciplines that have used the method of profiling murderers: law enforcement and mental health clinicians who need to explain actions and behavior or a murderer through psychology concepts. These behavior patterns are identified through investigation of a suspect. A murderer has many motivations to kill someone. Some have psychological problem and some are eager to take revenge. There are two types of multiple murders: spree and serial. Spree murder involves murdering someone at different locations with no specific time ...