Erin Potts CRI 310 Criminal Profiling Policy & Practice

Week #9Assignment

Professor Wilt September 17, 2012 Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer were among many other killers that walked the city streets, their stories are different yet in some ways the same. They both set out on a mission and a mission they intended to keep secret. According to Brent Turvey there are two functions of offense skill which is planning and their precautionary act. Manson was the type of murder that did not like to get his hands dirty, he was more of the sophisticated manipulator that was able to get other people to believe in what he was saying and doing, and therefore coerce them into doing the killings. When it comes to Jeffrey Dahmer he was in some sense an organized killer and yet...