The study of psychopathy emerged toward the early 19th century and investigated by the eminent German psychiatrist of that time Koch (1891). People who displayed immoral, violent, criminal, and deviant traits prior to Kosh’s work, were labelled morally insane. Koch (1891) preferred the term ‘psychopathic inferiority’. The term ‘psychopath’ was born. Koch differentiated between those…
It is important that we approach every investigation untainted by our own thoughts, feelings, belief systems, bias, or prejudice. From the start to the finish of an investigation, the agent must be in receive mode only. This means, you will ABC: Assume Believe Challenge Information both seen and heard may be exactly as you see…
It is argued there is no single definition of crime. Instead, there are perceptions of the meaning of crime. Government, Lawyers, Criminologists, Forensic Psychologists, and sociologists will argue that defining crime appropriately is crucial to the way with which laws are created and how those laws are implemented. Nevertheless, the simplest and most generalised definition…