Deck 24: Ethics and the Criminal Profiler

Question 1

refers to providing sensational coverage of incidents involving death and violence through media programs designed to entertain more than they are designed to provide accurate information.
a. Conformtainment
b. Murdertainment
c. Sensationalization
d. True crime

Answer 1

Murdertainment

Question 2

A statement of perjury must be regarding a material fact.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Criminal profilers engage in forensic fraud when they provide sworn testimony, opinions, or reports bound for court that contain deceptive or misleading findings, opinions, or conclusions, deliberately offered to secure an unfair or unlawful gain.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which of the following professional organizations was the first to publish a set of ethical guidelines specifically designed to address the potential misconduct of criminal profilers?
a. The FBI
b. The Academy of Behavioral Profiling
c. The American Society of Criminologists
d. The American Board of Criminalistics

Question 5

The true-crime market dramatizes, vilifies, packages, and sells the acts of violent, predatory offenders to the public.

Question 6

What is the easiest form of forensic fraud to investigate and screen?
a. Pseudoexperts
b. Simulators
c. Dissemblers
d. Enablers

Question 7

The Academy of Behavioral Profiling ABP) was the first professional organization to professionalize criminal profiling as a formal discipline.

Question 8

The relationship between the criminal profiler and the media should be the same as any other- the profiler should be there to educate.

Question 9

Which of the following is not a category of forensic fraud?
a. Pseudoexperts
b. Simulators
c. Dissemblers
d. Enablers

Question 10

The purpose of having criminal profilers on TV is to comfort the public in times of crisis.

Question 11

Criminal profiling can cause harm in which of the following ways?
a. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by providing false leads
b. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by pointing to false suspects
c. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by excluding viable suspects
d. All of the above

Question 12

Criminal profilers have a duty to inform the community regarding unethical conduct, to act as a disincentive to those who actively disregard the mandates of ethical professionalism.

Question 13

The problems associated with unethical behavior are unique to the profiling community.

Question 14

What is the most common form of forensic fraud?
a. Pseudoexperts
b. Simulators
c. Dissemblers
d. Enablers

Question 15

Which of the following is true regarding the media and criminal profilers?
a. Profilers are rarely sought out to assist with media-related projects
b. The responsibility of the profiler is to educate
c. Profilers may represent facts of a case for dramatic purposes only
d. All of the above

Question 16

Criminal profilers have a responsibility to ensure that any research they publish is both relevant and honest.

Question 17

Which of the following represents a breach of ethics by virtue of misuse of a profile?
a. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by providing false leads
b. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by pointing to false suspects
c. Delaying the apprehension of an offender by excluding viable suspects
d. Harming the personal life of a citizen by an implication of guilt based solely on the characteristics in the profile

Question 18

are those who physically manipulate physical evidence or related forensic testing.
a. Pseudoexperts
b. Simulators
c. Dissemblers
d. Enablers

Question 19

Most criminal profilers operate outside of the specific or written code of professional ethics.

Question 20

The statement: "Members shall conduct themselves in a professional manner" is an example of which of the following?
a. An ethical guideline
b. A practice standard
c. A principle
d. All of the above

Question 21

Explain the difference between a simulator and a dissembler. Provide an example of each.

Question 22

Explain the importance of ethical guidelines for the criminal profiler. List 3 ethical guidelines outlined by the Academy of Behavioral Profiling ABP).

Question 23

Define the term forensic fraud. List the 3 general categories of forensic fraud.