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<title>Randy Gonzalez - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Randy Gonzalez has been an active member in the criminal justice field for the past 38 years. As a police officer, deputy sheriff and law enforcement instructor, he has been involved in a number of criminal justice activities. He is the former director of a police academy and a retired chief of police. As a police academy director, he was responsible for basic recruit training, as well as advanced and career development courses for in-service law enforcement personnel. His involvement in law enforcement education extends state-wide. Randy also serves as a professor of criminology on the faculty of a local ... ]]></description>
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<title>Sex Crimes - Personal Responsibility for Criminal Behavior</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Criminal behavior is the expression of deviance within all of us. Basically, criminals are us, and we are them. Some do minor things, like run a stop sign, cheat on their taxes, or take property from their employer. Others do serious acts of criminal behavior that cause death, trauma and destruction. The criminal underworld is composed of all kinds of people. Like you and me, they come from all walks of life.]]></description>
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<title>The Nature of Crime and the Possibility of Solutions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A criminal act is seen as something abnormal and out of the scheme of "normal good" human behavior. Excuses abound and criminal behavior theory is typically pronounced in ways that are confusing and erroneous. As such, criminal behavior theory tends to revolve around therapeutic intervention, rehabilitation strategies and socio-political policy. Instead of assessing the poor choices people have the freedom to make, the external environment is examined to "justify" the aberrant behavior. And, although environment may be influential some degree, anyone can come up with an array of excuses. Such notions present scenarios in which it is all too easy to mitigate criminal behavior on the basis of psychological dysfunction or oppressive social conflicts.]]></description>
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<title>Traditional Framework of Investigative Inquiry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Within the traditional framework of investigative inquiry, one of the objectives an investigator once considered was the means by which to apply critical thinking skills. In this process, the criminality is identified, the criminal or criminals are located and the facts are assembled to prove complicity. Evidence is crucial along with the methodical means by which the evidentiary artifacts are gathered.]]></description>
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<title>Collectivist Simplicity in Criminological Reactivity, Or Why People Believe Stupidly</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:01:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you will the mind, created by the brain to entertain us, as a vast multidimensional twilight zone of limitless constantly changing psychic energy. Consider that all of it is contrived on the basis of your self-rule, in the willful forethought for premeditated perpetration, directed by purposeful intent. Forget the glitz, glamor and glaze of the standard fictional rubric in the speculation of motive, means and opportunity.]]></description>
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<title>Criminology 101 Overview of Murder Mindset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In our mindset, we like the powerful feelings we get from those tingling impulses of bloodshed sensual enticements. Slipping up the spinal column, prickling the skin and quivering with goose bumps, the sensation tantalizes the neural networks. The brain manifests the illusion of mind and projections of fantasies unfold. Stimulation stirs in the psychic realm of sensory perception. Death incites our thoughts...]]></description>
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<title>Developing a Tactical Mindset - A Brief Overview</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:07:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A tactical mindset is a personal, private and individualistic perception of extraordinary self-interest. This is positive and proactive posture for interpersonal interaction with others. That is to say, when you leave your "safe house". Family, friends and those you frolic with, naturally require different options for defensive tactics.]]></description>
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<title>Criminology Theory - News Bulletin Update</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the last update of the theory, as related to criminology, an interesting aspect is suggested to be prevalent among skeptical investigators. That is, one must be ready for the probable provocation in the societal possibility that fiction is often more acceptable than reality.]]></description>
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<title>Criminology 101 - Excerpt From Current Research in Classical Criminology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Awakening the assassin's ascension alludes to the potential within humans to plot, scheme and murder. Mental proclivities mirror the brainpower of individual initiative, inspiration and intention. To inflict all manner of abnormality find culpability within the thinking processes. Mindset refers to what the brain does a result of cerebral chemical interactions.]]></description>
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<title>Criminology Crime-Line September 2010 Practitioner Based Perspective</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This is part of an ongoing series of discussions relative to the classical school of criminology from a practitioner's perspective. The series appears in another format at Dr. Gonzo's writer's site located at Scrbd.com.]]></description>
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<title>Gonzo Theory - Beware of the Concept of OPUS - A Review of the Previous - August 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An evolving gonzo theory, OPUS is willful inner generation from the dark side of that unique duality of human nature, goodness and wickedness. OPUS makes up the basic ingredients of human deception and clever ruses, which is for the sake of Obsessive-Compulsive Postulation for Unsubstantiated Subjectivism.]]></description>
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<title>Criminology 101 - August 2010 Commentary</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mythology and the Criminal Mind Not much has changed and there is nothing new under the sun, as humans give lip service to allegations of modern civility, social progress and pious intellectualism. Hypocrisy runs rampant in our pretext to knowing so much about so little in terms of our psychopathologies. Our egocentric fixations on what is and what ought to be clamor over the tip of the psychosexual humanistic iceberg.]]></description>
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<title>Crime-Line - Adventures in the Pseudosciences - August 2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[OPUS - "Obsessive-Compulsive Postulation in Unconfirmed Subjectivism", is anti-thinking for your personal subjective validation of issue for which you have strong feelings. Whatever your self-willed purposes, you make your own choices. Not unlike the criminal who gets caught in the miscalculations of their communal ruses, all of us decide between the personal gain and potential loss for the sake of self-gratification. Feelings are allowed to trump logic.]]></description>
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<title>'Serial Killer' Mythology and Social Seduction</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder if so called "serial killers" (insert multi-murderers here please) enjoy their own mythology? Surely they must have a sense of social seduction in their public mystique. For those of us who freely choose not to kill others, we're infatuated by them. So much so, the mythic proportions span the global spectrum of modern edutainment. You know as a group they must think the rest of us are pretty gullible.]]></description>
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<title>Forensic Theology - Ideological Threat Assessments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ What is "forensic theology"? Another way to analyze modus operandi in criminal cases?]]></description>
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<title>Psychic Detectives and Criminal Profilers - Are They Solving More Crimes?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:11:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do psychic detectives and criminal profilers really solve crimes? Or, are they doing what B.T. Barnum would've been proud of? Good questions in a supposedly enlightened era of post-modern America. But, the answer is no. Actually, with all the "psycho gadgets and gizmos", we're solving fewer crimes against persons. And, no, the bad guys aren't getting smarter. Yet, we all want to believe in "supernatural" quick easy answers. So that, to answer complex social issues, we can explain away the mysterious nature of human behavior. Both psychics and profilers use extraordinary conjecture. Absent of course, any credible scientific evidence of a sound basis. In other words, these sleight of hand tactics use techniques any con artist, palm reader or magician would be proud of.]]></description>
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<title>Why Kids Kill Kids</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kids kill others kids because they choose to do so. Criminal behavior is a decision-making process focused on personal gain. The choice of deviant acts fulfills the fantasy of criminogenic ideation. Thoughts imagine the basis of some self-centered action. The formation of such thinking is part of human nature. Everyone, younger and older, have the potential to be dangerous. From selfish arrogant motives, anti-social tendencies become reality. So, kids kill other kids, just like adults kill other adults. Criminal behavior is a personal seduction to individual deviance. To excuse the behavior by suggesting some external cause-effect influence is to minimize serious criminality. And, at the same time, find ways to avoid punishing the criminal. Asserting theoretical abstracts of some sociological maladjustment, allows the young criminal to escape responsibility. Also, if he or she can hide behind blaming someone or something else, then they avoid accountability. Criminals love excuses. So do the rest of us. It's all about thinking. ]]></description>
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<title>Criminal Profiling - Fact or Fantasy?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:49:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the field of criminology, real-world practitioners are sometimes intrigued by the gullibility of human perceptions. Of which, later on, we see the development of alleged expertise, purporting some new invention. Gee whiz gadgets and gizmos of feel good "psycho-babble" interfere with the realistic practical applications. These dreamlike conjectures typically involve replacing fact with fiction. Pseudo-science that hasn't met the reliability of bone fide experiential authenticity. Usually, this impulse to speculation derives from sensational news reports. Television dramas, talk show "experts" or creative movie scripts fund the urban legends of criminal behavior theory. Careers are established, books are sold and movies unfold. Sooner or later, cottage industries are born. Instant "experts" invent themselves. Set up websites. Write stories about "serial killers" they've known. This is legerdemain of cunning tactics. Intellectual fortune telling at its finest. Because such things are tied to the commercialization of product over principle. So, it is remotely conceivable we've been duped by the duplicity of "dangerous minds". And, that danger wears the black suited, dark sunglasses conformity of shadowy self-interests. They reside in the hallowed sanctity of ivory towers and high level government offices. Places that produce the "serial" everything.]]></description>
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<title>Classes, Cops and Crime - Protecting the Campus Commons</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:22:53 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Protecting the campus environment, or commons, requires a commitment to effective and efficient security strategies. Safety, security and surveillance involve communal cooperation among many participants. This includes those connected to the classroom as well as the cops protecting them. Plus, we can't overlook the campus criminals. Criminal behavior happens everywhere. From small acts of deceit, to large-scale acts of brutality.  Anyone is capable of anything. Some members of the campus community cheat on exams, file fraudulent work records, or steal school property.]]></description>
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<title>Movie Magic - The Gothic Depiction of Criminal Behavior</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:21:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The singular suggestion of serial behavior conjures images of "monsters" in human form. Movie magic is the clever sleight of hand that thrills our senses. Inventiveness of writers, directors and technicians compete to titillate our imagination. Talented artistic people develop creative works of fiction for the vast entertainment industry.]]></description>
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<title>Evil - The Mind's Way of Getting Even</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:19:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When a heinous crime is committed, what do you think? Do you think the perpetrator was somehow influenced by evil? Some external force exerting an uncontrollable rage of reckless blood lust? Did some demonic form take over? Did the criminal inflict tortuous death on an innocent person because of malevolent forces?]]></description>
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<title>Campus Security - Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:16:12 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Proper planning prevents poor performance when designing the scope and scheme of security countermeasures. This is the basic rule of the "5P's". Yet, it's just a beginning. A guide to get moving in determined proactive directions. On a school and college campuses, this means a multi-task approach to productive community interaction. People, places and property interface in a cooperation effort of reducing opportunities for criminal activity.]]></description>
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<title>Crypto-Criminology - The Gothic Nature of Crime</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:42:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Crypto-criminology refers to the dark, devious and dangerous side of human nature. That strain of humanistic proclivity that crosses the boundaries of civility into brutality. This is a realm of "practical criminology", applicability to the real world, where human behavior defies profiling, prediction and precise definition. Such an investigation descends to the depths of human depravity, to damp gloomy dungeons of mental mayhem. ]]></description>
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<title>Criminal Profiling and the Magic of the Fashion Police</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:41:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[     Is criminal profiling the latest fad in law enforcement? Does fact merge with fiction to produce sleight of hand deceptions? Has Hollywood capitalized on the public's imagination of myth and magic? If recognize the fiction over the fact, how come some many have bought into it? Are we so obsessed by quick and easy solutions to crimes that we pursue any possibility? Okay, so these are just a few questions we could ask the myriad of so-called experts.]]></description>
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<title>Bite Mark Evidence - Indented Dental Depressions</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:39:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bite marks can be a very critical piece of evidence. Careful extraction of such evidential aspects of the investigation, allude to the inner psyche of the perpetrator. Motives, intent and proclivities surface from the surreal to the reality of human inclinations. To psychologically consume another person's flesh, by biting, tasting and swallowing their presence, the criminal enacts the potency of his or her power.]]></description>
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<title>School Safe - Sexual Behavior and Security</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:57:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You're probably wondering, what does sex have to do with security?  Some would say a lot.  Other might answer, there's no relation between the two.  And, still others would say, what are you talking about?  Then again, there's another group, the ones who really don't care.  They don't care as long as such things don't go public.  Depending on your perspective regarding campus safety and security, the subject could be very important.  Sex and security could be part of your safety and security planning policies. ]]></description>
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<title>A Classical View - Why Do People Commit Crimes?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:24:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why do people commit crimes? Because they want to. Criminal behavior is a matter of choices. Today, there are many excuses cloaked as reasons for criminal behavior. The misguided nature of these assertions has a serious impact upon crime control strategies. The classical approach to crime control strategies deals with direct intervention tactics. ]]></description>
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<title>Crime Control Strategies - Myth, Magic and Metaphor</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Crime Control Strategies typically follow the illusion of the latest political correct innovations. Yet, dealing with criminal behavior requires serious policy implications. ]]></description>
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