To prepare:
- For this Discussion, choose one of the crime scene scenarios in the “Crime Scene Scenarios” document in the Learning Resources. You will create and post your violent crime case analysis in the form of a 5-minute video. Familiarize yourself with the Kaltura interactive media resource, in the Learning Resources, for instructions on creating, uploading, and posting a video.
- Analyze the offender characteristics from the crime scene interactive in the Learning Resources and consider what might have been the primary motivation and some secondary motivations for the crime.
- Consider which of the following crime scene elements are present in the crime scene interactive, and how you might describe each and its potential meaning.
- Staging
- Undoing
- Posing
- Signatures
- Consider whether the crime scene interactive is an example of expressive or instrumental crime? Or both? And why you think so.
- From your perspective, what do you think is the most important part of this crime scene assessment in terms of the forensic psychology professional’s role and why.
Post a 5-minute Kaltura video in which you analyze the crime scene in this week’s interactive, and the accompanying case file, and respond to each of the following prompts:
- Describe the offender characteristics from the crime scene.
- Explain what you think was the primary motivation for the crime and secondary motivations, if any.
- Describe which of the following crime scene elements are present, then explain their possible meaning.
- Staging
- Undoing
- Posing
- Signatures
- Explain why you think this crime scene is an example of expressive crime, instrumental crime, or both.
- From your perspective, what is the most important part of this crime scene assessment in terms of the forensic psychology professional’s role? Explain why.
Note: Your Kaltura video post should be 5 minutes in length, substantially respond to each of the post elements listed, and be supported with scholarly evidence from your research and/or the Learning Resources, and properly cited using APA style.
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