![]() Here too emails soon followed and still do, mirroring this media driven desire to become a criminalist. Rather what you want to do is be the detective. Once again they didn’t realize that in most police departments you don’t actually want to be the Crime Scene Investigator (trust me – it is dirty, smelly, gruesome, and not well compensated). Later when the CSI TV series came out, profiling was no longer in vogue and my students wanted to be Crime Scene Investigators. The emails I received also echoed interest in profiling from as far away as Australia and Turkey, to the tune of about several dozen per week. When the movie Silence of the Lambs came out and later several TV shows about “criminal profiling” followed, suddenly my university students all seemed to want to be “criminal profilers.” This in spite of the fact that most good investigators do their own “criminal analysis” (read profiling) without the need of a full time profiler. I say that because I have seen this several times before. The show “ Lie to Me” has once more demonstrated the power of television and the media. ![]() ![]() By Joe Navarro, Posted in Psychology Today
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