New Blog Allows Readers to Track a Criminal and Geographical Profiler Working On a Real Murder Case
For the first time ever, a blog that lets the public keep daily track of an expert criminal and geographical profiler as he develops the psychological picture of the predator and predicts where he is likely to live at. Track the geographical profile of a real murder case.
(PRWEB) June 3, 2005 -- Welcome to the only Blog that will allow you to track
along with a criminal and geographical profiler a real unsolved series of
murders. Dr. Godwin's analysis that you will be following is his development of
a geographical profile in the unsolved murders of males in LA.
The
purpose of geographical profiling is to use the crime locations in order to
predict the area where the killer likely lives at.
The first analysis of
the crime locations by Dr. Godwin's geographical profiling system Predator
supports his *Wedge Theory.*
The reason for the directional bias (wedge
theory) is to due to the fact that human beings invest the landscapes they
experience with symbolic value. The offender’s mental image is built up from
repeated journeys to work, and the suburbs on the city fringe develop by visits
to peripheral urban shopping centers. Porteous referred to these peripheral
areas as orbit areas. The theory of directional bias is also supported by
Johnston’s 1971 and 1972 research in Christchurch, New Zealand. Johnston found,
for example, that choice of location for affluent citizens was influenced by a
directional factor of availability of land on which to build. In another study
on directional bias, Mercer suggests that the sectoral mental map may not be
anchored on downtown, based on regular daily activities, but may instead focus
upon recreation areas beyond the city which are visited weekly.
To be
sure, there is ample basis for the argument that criminals’ spatial patterns
depend on limited mental maps or mental images of the city and areas surrounding
their homes. When they carry out their crimes, the locational choices are
affected by reliable knowledge of the city or area which forms wedge shaped
images that are shape in focus for places close to home or other parts of the
home sector, and blurry or blank for distant places, such as the other side of
town.
Caveat: There will be no crime scene photos or case sensitive
information on this blog.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb245854.htm