Final+Proposal

Formal Proposal Criminal Profiling Danielle Sebenick The reason I am doing this project on criminal profiling, is because that is what I want to do when I am older. I have looked at the databases from the FBI about criminal profiling and past cases that a profile was used and was helpful in solving cases. ** How do Criminal Psychological Profilers, create a profile for a suspect or perpetrator of a crime? **  This project will make people aware of what criminal profiling is, because at the moment few people know what it is actually about. It will make people understand that criminal profiling is not racial profiling. For my hands-on project I am going to do a murder mystery party and have cards and a story outline and people will play their parts and try to find out who the murderer is, and it is not as easy as it seems. -To better understand how profiling works and the steps it takes to create a profile -To get a good grade on this project -To have people understand what exactly criminal profiling is -To create awareness about types of criminals and better protect oneself -To make myself dedicated to this topic since I will be doing this for my job in the future The products that will come out of this project will be the power point, the paper, and my murder mystery game and analysis. I definitely need more research and I would love to interview an actual criminologist. The Research Paper rough draft is due October 30th 2009. The final paper is due on November 12th 2009 and I am presenting my power point on January 13th 2010. My mentor’s name is Jennifer Rosa. I chose her because she always encourages me and supports me in whatever I am doing. She knows that I am intrigued by my topic and is the one who helped me decide to this project on criminal profiling. I talk to her every week about how my project is going and what I need help on. She is excited about my topic since it is so vastly different from most other topics and is not a well-known topic in the first place. This topic is extremely important to me and I need to improve my time management skills a lot. I need to be able to focus better and to get done the things I need to get done, I also need to work on my skills as a speaker and be able to talk intelligently in front of my peers and other people also. I need to make sure my strengths show through in my project and make sure that my weaknesses do not show through and make sure I do well on this project.
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