Criminal Minds : TV Series, US Crime Rates, Criminal Profiling

Summary: Criminal Minds is a resource for Criminal studies, current criminal rates, professional criminal education, criminal justice issues, and criminal TV series with topics like criminal profiling, racial profiling, the decline of the US Crime Rate, Law and Order Criminal Intent TV Series, Criminal Minds TV Series, and importance of employee background checks.

Criminal Minds is an online criminal information related site. Criminal studies, current criminal rates, professional criminal education, criminal justice issues, and criminal TV series are just a few of the topics discussed with-in this site. Specific criminal topics with detailed information are criminal profiling, racial profiling, the decline of the US Crime Rate, Law and Order Criminal Intent TV Series, Criminal Minds TV Series, importance of employee background checks, and more. There are also many interesting criminal statistics presented on the site from the FBI’s yearly United States crime rate study or FBI crime rate stats.

The criminal psychology behind why someone commits a heinous or violent crime has been studied for decades. Criminal profilers have literally spent hours interviewing and studying well-known criminals such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer to gain a better understanding of what drives them to commit such horrific crimes.

One conclusion that has been reached is that it is a matter of both nurture an nature. Hardened criminals are lacking in the ability to empathize with their victims, or to realize that what they are doing is wrong. They feel justified in committing the crime and often feel as if the victim “deserved” it. They may choose to seek out a select group of people to “punish,” such as women. Often in these criminals’ past is a history of severe child abuse or neglect, mental illness and an absence of parental involvement in the rearing of the child. Early warning signs that something is terribly wrong with the child’s behavior or language is overlooked. They are often ridiculed by peers and family members, or made to perform unnatural acts. Often profilers are able to describe the type of car a criminal may drive, what kind of clothes they wear and what job they hold simply based on the type of crime that has been committed and the manner in which it was executed.

Criminal Minds TV Series:

Criminal Minds has recently become a popular term due to the recent Criminal Minds TV Series where an elite team of FBI agents from the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) use criminal profiling techniques to prevent future crimes. The main roles of characters on Criminal Minds are FBI BAU Special Agents, FBI Audio Visual Technician, FBI Behavioral Analyst and FBI BAU Supervisory Special Agent. This TV Series also focuses on the criminal instead of the actual crimes being committed. The FBI BAU Agents tend to focus on horrific serial crimes like arson, rape, and murder.This criminal series is similar to other crime series like CSI: NY, CSI Miami, CSI Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, The Unit and Cold Case but Criminal Minds focuses on preventing crimes. The Criminal Minds Series originally started in September 2005. Criminal Minds also has Season 1, Season 2, and Season 3 out on DVD in box sets.

Criminal minds is not only unique because of the fact the criminal is focused on instead of the crime, but also each show starts out with a famous quote being read along with that particular show ties into the quote. The quotes are often taken from well known authors like Shakespeare, Susan B Anthony, John Steinbeck, Euripides, Clive Barker, and Martin Luther King. This famous quote is presented as a voice over at the beginning of the show and wraps up the end of the show at the conclusion by one of the actors on the series.

In one of the most popular episodes to date of Criminal Minds was placed in Guantanamo Bay where the interrogation of a Muslim detainee was done in hopes of stopping a terrorist attack in the United States. This script was written by an actual FBI profiler by the name of Jim Clemente. Other Criminal Minds episodes include criminal topics like necrophilia, cannibalism, and child serial killers. Criminal Minds series shows how the agents help solve and prevent the crimes, but the series also shows how the involvement of these terrible crimes also impact the FBI agents involved.