Criminal Profiling as a Plotting Activity Based on Abductive Processes

Verde, Alfredo; Nurra, Antonio

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“…Centrándonos en la EC, el análisis de la misma se integra conceptualmente en la técnica de perfilación criminal como uno de sus componentes básicos, además de la victimología, el modus operandi/firma y los hallazgos forenses (Ainsworth, 2008;Canter y Larkin, 1993;Crabbé et al, 2008;Douglas, Ressler, Burguess y Hartman, 1986;Ressler y Burguess, 1985;Schlesinger, 2009;Soothill, Francis y Ackerley, 2007;Verde y Nurra, 2010).…”

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La violencia en la escena del crimen en homicidios en la pareja

Soria

2016

Anuario de Psicología Jurídica

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La violencia en la escena del crimen en homicidios en la pareja

Soria

2016

Anuario de Psicología Jurídica

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“…Jackson-Jakobs 2004, Maruna and Copes 2005, Jimerson and Oware 2006, Green et al 2006, Copes et al 2008, Sandberg 2009a). Most explicitly, Verde et al (2006; Verde and Nurra 2010) studied psychiatric reports as narrative products and criminal profiling as plotting activity. So when Presser coined the term narrative criminology in 2009, it might be seen as a third beginning.…”

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The past, present, and future of narrative criminology: A review and an invitation

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Ugelvik²

2016

Crime, Media, Culture

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As J.W. Ironmonger's 2012 novel The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder opens, the protagonist Max is lying face up, dead, on his own front room dining table. On his 21 st birthday, Max decided to lock himself in his apartment, curtains drawn, to systematically map his entire brain's contents for his thesis work in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. The project was supposed to last three years. Three decades later, his fifty-one year old body is surrounded by his life's work: Shelves filled with 1600 books and folders, including 358 volumes of autobiographical monologue painstakingly recorded on note paper and bound in red leather (the so-called 'narrative volumes'). His 'Catalogue' also includes shelves after shelves of grey A4 lever-arch files (the 'day logs') recording experiences that strictly speaking should not have happened. When a leaky pipe, a blown light bulb or a heavy thunderstorm interrupted the project, Max had to record it for the sake of completion. This everyday "mess" should have been "controlled away" to leave Max's 21-year-old brain pure and pristine and untainted by ongoing events. Unfortunately, life had a habit of intruding on his ongoing storytelling project with new events, making the task never-ending. Max's life was spent trying to tell his own life's story without actually living it. Death has now made his catalogue complete. The story has ended. Or has it? What is the end of a story, and where does it begin? The sharing of stories is an important part of the human condition. People seem to have a fundamental drive to tell and listen to them. We use them to communicate and reproduce ingroup solidarity. They may provoke strong emotions. They may be simultaneously entertaining and educational; it is no coincidence that we tell children stories to help them understand and explore a chaotic world. One reason is that storytelling is a basic device for creating, providing and assigning meaning. Stories are good at making simple what is complicated. At the same time, some of the complexity is retained because stories by their very nature are ambiguous and openended. They are an important resource in everyday life and in times of celebration and difficulty; crucial for the way we live, and for the organisation of society. Even our very identity and sense of self is narratively constructed. We make sense of ourselves and our relationships with others by sharing stories and through our individual ongoing inner narrative. Stories are, simply put, at the core of what makes us who and what we are. Narrative criminology refers to the study of the role the telling and sharing of stories play in committing, upholding and effecting desistance from crime and other harmful acts. It is hard to say when the story of narrative criminology began. It is, perhaps, one of those stories that have several beginnings. One very early beginning can be traced back to ancient Athens. In Poetics, Aristotle (2013), the grandfather of all narrative analysis, laid out the founding principles of modern-day narratolo...

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“…This is such a large amount that we cannot expect to be able to set up experimental approaches that will allow us to identify their function. Identification of gene function is somewhat similar to criminal profiling (Verde and Nurra, ). We have to use hypotheses, data and context to try and propose a candidate.…”

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Coping with inevitable accidents in metabolism

Danchin

2016

Microbial Biotechnology

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SummaryGenomic studies focus on key metabolites and pathways that, despite their obvious anthropocentric design, keep being ‘predicted’, while this is only finding again what is already known. As increasingly more genomes are sequenced, this lightpost effect may account at least in part for our failure to understand the function of a continuously growing number of genes. Core metabolism often goes astray, accidentally producing a variety of unexpected compounds. Catabolism of these forgotten metabolites makes an essential part of the functions coded in metagenomes. Here, I explore the fate of a limited number of those: compounds resulting from radical reactions and molecules derived from some reactive intermediates produced during normal metabolism. I try both to update investigators with the most recent literature and to uncover old articles that may open up new research avenues in the genome exploration of metabolism. This should allow us to foresee further developments in experimental genomics and genome annotation.

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Criminal Profiling as a Plotting Activity Based on Abductive Processes

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

La violencia en la escena del crimen en homicidios en la pareja

La violencia en la escena del crimen en homicidios en la pareja

The past, present, and future of narrative criminology: A review and an invitation

Coping with inevitable accidents in metabolism

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