All Blog Posts Tagged 'criminal' (10)

Criminal Potential

I hate that question, 'How do you get your ideas?' But for once I can answer.

Some years ago I was watching the news. A U.S school was in a state of panic after multiple shootings by an adolescent. The account was truly shocking and the outcomes were followed closely by the media over several days. Sadly, there have been other such events since, in and outside of…

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Added by Rosalind Minett on January 16, 2016 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Trial of Outlaw Frank James Begins - 1883

This is my first blog post on Crime Space...I'm the author of "Murder & Mayhem 52 Crimes that Shocked Early California 1849-1949" (2012, Schiffer). I have a regular blog at www.mikeb63.blogspot.com that has spotlighted crime stories and other things for the past year. Visit my author website www.michaelthomasbarry.com for more…

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Added by Michael Barry on August 22, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments

What's happening in July for Crime Author Pauline Rowson

It only seems like five minutes ago I was writing the entry for June and here we are in July (and with little sign of the summer in the UK). So what's happening in July?

On 5 July I am to be guest crime author at the annual conference of the British Society of Criminology taking place at the University of Portsmouth, Institute of Criminal…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 2, 2012 at 5:11pm — No Comments

The Unpredictable World of Psychopathic Offenders

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Psychopathy is a personality disorder and has been described to have significant social implications. A person who has been diagnosed as a psychopath take what they want, do what they want, violate any social norms, and don’t experience the slightest sense of guilt or regret for what they have done.

Psychopaths are responsible for a considerable amount of the serious crimes committed, both violent and non-violent, and social distress to society. One frightening…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on November 30, 2011 at 8:26am — No Comments

Criminal Profiling – An Important Investigative Tool

In my first crime fiction novel Compulsion, Emily Stone’s love interest Detective Rick Lopez uses a form of profiling called a “Threshold Assessment”. He carefully weighs the evidence from the serial homicide crime scenes, criminal…

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Added by Jennifer Chase on May 10, 2011 at 1:24am — 3 Comments

Getting Inside A Criminal's Mind

An aspiring novelist asks: How can you get inside a killer's head? Join us at Hook'em & Book'em as published authors and an ex-cop share insights.

Added by Mark Young on July 31, 2010 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

The Art of Murder

A naysayer has issued a call for “Criminal Minds” to be canceled, because she felt the recent episode,… Continue

Added by Barri L. Bumgarner on June 30, 2010 at 1:38pm — No Comments

On vanity and the criminal mind

Here's a rather long quote from Josephine Tey (the speaker is Grant in The Singing Sands)

"It's a harmless sort of weakness," Tad said, with a tolerant lift of a shoulder.

"That is just where you are wrong. It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in the mirror and buys things to deck itself out in. But that is merely personal conceit. Real vanity is something quite different. A matter not of person but of… Continue

Added by Ken Kuhlken on November 19, 2009 at 10:45am — No Comments

Vote or Die: The Nature of Crime

Political rhetoric usually focuses around one of two themes: destroy this or defend against that. Either way, the war is never over. The War on Drugs. The War on Terror. The War for America's Soul. The War Against You.

I went to the polls today with that in mind. This time, the front was public education. On one side of the trench was a school district seeking to bolster its war chest with millions more in levy dollars. Guarding the fort opposite them were the taxpayers of my area,… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on November 4, 2009 at 1:55pm — 6 Comments

New Blog: Womenincrimeink

P R E S S R E L E A S E

Announcing a unique crime blog March 10, 2008:

WOMEN IN CRIME INK

Set to launch on Monday, March 10, 2008, at http://www.womencrimeink.blogspot.com

Contact: womenincrimeink@yahoo.com or 713/444-8700

Profiling the nation’s most intriguing criminals . . . interviewing killers, survivors, witnesses, and… Continue

Added by Andrea Campbell on March 12, 2008 at 7:13am — No Comments