Criminal justice Criminal justice Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher, who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals. Until this time, criminals could only be identified based on eyewitness accounts, which are known to be unreliable. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alphonse Bertillon"
Alternatives to imprisonment might be understood on several levels: ...more on Wikipedia about "Alternatives to imprisonment"
Comparative Contextual Analysis is a methodology for comparative research where contextual interrogation precedes any analysis of similarity and difference. It is a thematic process directed and designed to explore relationships of agency rather than institutional or strucural frameworks. See structure and agency and theory of structuration. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comparative contextual analysis"
A consensual crime is behavior that constitutes a crime, but all of those involved in the activity give their consent as willing participants and, when charged with the offense, seek to rely on that consent as a defense to liability, arguing that because no third parties suffer as a direct result, there is no public benefit in their conviction. For example, two people may engage in a BDSM activity where one repeatedly strikes the other. In general terms, this is an assault. The issue is whether it should cease to be a crime because the motive for the activity is sexual gratification rather than a more obviously criminal intention. This is distinguishable from a victimless crime where either the "victim" cannot be prosecuted because he or she is excluded from liability by virtue of being the person protected by the law, e.g. statutory rape or child sexual abuse, or because the offense is defined so that the defendant is the "victim" and, as such, he or she is the only person who may be considered to have suffered actual or potential injury, e.g. possession or consumption of recreational drugs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consensual crime"
Roy Hazelwood is a well-known profiler of sexual crimes and is generally regarded as the pioneer of such profiling. He works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1980, he developed the distinction between "organized" and "disorganized" murderers, a concept that is still used by law enforcement to help in the apprehension of criminals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roy Hazelwood"
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