General objectives

Criminal minds is an American police procedural drama that premiered on CBS, September 22, 2005. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBIs Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia. The BAU is part of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime(NCAVC). Criminal minds dodders from many procedual dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself. The show is produced by The Mark Golden Company in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios.

National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime

In November 1982, following a meeting between members of the Criminal Personality Research Project advisory board and other specialists, the concept of a single was put forward. This elite investigative branch was never envisaged as a replacement for traditional crime investigation by local law enforcement agencies. The proposal was unanimously adopted seven months later by a conference held at Sam Huston State Universitys Center for Criminal Justice in Huntsville , Texas. The delegates ageed that the NCAVC should be founded at the FBI Academy in Quantico and run by the agents of Behavioral Science Unit. President Ronald Reagan formally announced the establishment of NCAVC on June 1984. The mission of the NACVC is to coordinate investigative and operational support functions, criminological research , and training in order to provide assistance to federal , state, local and foreign law enforcement agencies investigating unusual or repetitive violent crimes (serial crimes). The NACVC also provides investigative support through expertise and consultation in non-violent matters such as national security, corruption and white-collar crime investigations. President Reagan gave in the primary mission of identifying and tracking repeat killers, a term he used for serial killers. The NACVC uses the latest advances in computer and investigative strategies to combat serial and violent crimes. ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program) and PROFILER, (a robot ,rule-based expert system programmed to profile serial criminals). CIAP (Criminal Investigative Analysis Programme) is another program designed to investigate serial crime.

VICAP specifically works by identifying and linking the signature aspects in violent serial crimes. The signature of a crime is the intrinsic part of the crime witch the criminal must include in order for him to be satisfied(as Ted bundy would say that killer must do to Get his rocks off)and thus is present in every crime committed by the same person (although the signature does evolve over time). Today, every division in the FBI is mandated to have an NACVC coordinator. The NACVC or profiling coordinator acts as a liaison to the local lawanforcement agencies. Typical cases for witch NACVC services are requested include child abduction or mysterious disappearance of children ,serial murders ,single homicides , serial rapes, extortions ,threats ,kidnappings, product tampering, arsons and bombings, weapons of mass destruction , public corruption ,and domestic and international terrorism. The operational service are typically facilitated through NACVC coordinators assigned to each FBI field office.

The criminology
The criminology is a set of techniques and procedures of investigation whose objective is the discovery, explanation and test of the crimes, as well as the verification of its authors and victims. The criminology is worth of the scientific knowledge to reconstruct the facts. The set of auxiliary disciplines compose that it denominates forensic science. The forensic word comes from the Latin forensis , that means pertaining or regarding the forum. In Old Rome, an imputation by crime supposed to present the case before a group of remarkable people in the forum. As much the person who accused it by to have committed the crime as the denouncer had to explain their version of the facts. The argumentation, the tests and the behavior of each person determined the verdict of the case. In the present conceptions on the criminology some points of controversy exist. On the one hand, some definitions consider to the criminology line helping of the penal right, while others consider that he is applicable in the right generally. Dr. Brown Rafael Gonzalez, trying to be very explicit, presents a simple but useful definition: the science of the small detail. August Caesar Osorio and Nieto indicate that it is the discipline or joint of knowledge that he has as an aim to determine, from an expert technical point of view , if a crime

were committed or not, how it was carried out and it realized who it. Within the framework present, we can define it like: The discipline that applies the knowledge ,methods and techniques of investigation of natural science in the examination of the significant sensible material related to a presumed criminal fact, with the purpose of the determine its existence or to reconstruct it, to indicate and to need the intervention one or several subjects, thus arriving at the historical truth of the fact.

History
The first discipline of the criminology was what at present is known like fingerprinting ,science that studies tha digital tracks. The criminology we understand as it is born from the hand of the forensic medicine, around century XVII, when the doctors take part in the judicial procedures. Before knowing the development and evolution the criminology we must distinguish two stages: Ambiguous stage Scientific stage

In 1665 ,Marcello Malpighi observed and studied the digital reliefs of the fingers and palms of the hands. One of the first publications in Europe about the study of the digital impressions appeared in England in 1648, realized by dr. Nehemiah Grew. In 1823 treaty written by an anatomist, physiologist and Czech botanist Jan Purkyne Gospeller describes the types of digital tracks it classified and them in 9 groups. During that same year Huschke discovered the triangular reliefs, known like deltas, of the digital tacks of the fingers.

Methodology of the investigation criminology

The criminology studies lean in methods and own techniques of the

work of different disciplines, auxiliary sciences and expert laboratories ,between which are: Forensic art: the compound or spoken picture, realized from the memory of the victim, is most famous ,but also drawings with base in videos and photos, and progressive of age in case of missing people are carried out. Forensic anthropology : in order to be able to determine the sex, age, ethic group, and to even arrive at the face reconstruction of human rest, is required of several weeks of work in the anthropological laboratory.

Forensic ballistics: the forensic ballistics , like branch of the general ballistics and fundamental part of the Criminology , has like objective that in their laboratories carries out all the procedures and necessary studies of the cartridges , bullets and arms related to the personal homicides ,suicides accidents and injuries.

Fingerprinting: although the great majority of the digital impressions can be in the place of the fact, in other cases it is necessary that the objects that possibly have latent tracks are transferred to the laboratories for their reactivation ,having a used dusts ,steam of iodine ,ciano-acrylate of sodium or by means of the ray laser. Forensic entomology: forensic entomology is based on the ecological succession of the arthropods that settle in a corpse to determine the date of the death. He is especially useful in corpses with several days ,weeks or months of antiquity. Forensic photography: the participation of the photographer to realize the photographic fixation of the scene is fundamental. It is only the first part of his work ,since later it will have to move to the laboratory of forensic
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photography to carry out the developing of the material with wich the opinions will be illustrated. Forensic genetics: the study of bacteriological agents, like the saliva, blood, hair, and other weaves, allow to typify AND, modern identification method and that by its high accuracy denominated genetic track. Fact of transit: by means of the application of different techniques from chemical analysis , the painting fragments can be examined , carrying out distinctions as far as the heat and the compounds of the same. Hematology: in this specialty the application of chemistry is fundamental if a spot that was in the place of the fact is blood and if this one is of human , animal ; in case of being human blood the groups, sub-groups and factor RH will determine themselves. Forensic medicine: if it considers that the laboratory is the place where works of scientific research are realized, or can be considered necrocomio or the Forensic Medical Service like the laboratories that the doctors for the meticulous study of the corpse use, and to determine their identity and cause of death. Piloscopia: by means of the chemical study it can determine if the hair in study is about human hair or animal, as well as other characteristics. Forensic toxicology: it can be applied in alive or died subjects. In people cheers samples are taken blood and urine. In the urine it can be determined ,mainly, the presence of medicines and drugs of addiction, in the blood, ethylic alcohol.

Popular culture
Probably the popular case of Vidocq French, director od the National Security , influenced in the literary production of Victor Hugo, Dickens and Balzac. With the fiction detective August Dupin, generated by Edgat Allan Poe, they appear the first police stories of literature. But was Sherlock Holmes , personage devised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, that uses for the first time forensic science like one of its methods of investigation. Conan Doyle recognized that his inspiration was the surgeon and forensic Joseph Bell for the University of Edinburgh.

Decades later, Dick Tracy also included a detective who used a considerable number of forensic methods, although sometimes the methods were more SF than real. The defense counsel Perry Manson occasionally used the forensic techniques , as much in novels as in the series of television. In the last years , have acquired special popularity the police series of television in with crimes are solved, between which are Criminal minds, CSI, Bones, Law and order, NCIS, Cold CASE, Dexter, etc. The majority represents with glamour the activities of the forensic scientists.