NCJ Number
198223
Journal
Les Cahiers de la Securite Interieure Issue: 47 Dated: 2002 Pages: 195-207
Editor(s)
Anne Wuilleumier
Date Published
2002
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This article is devoted to a discussion of ultraviolence and the use of criminal profiling to arrest perpetrators.
Abstract
Psychology and human sciences have made possible the use of criminal profiling to find criminals. This author advocates its use in the apprehension of perpetrators of ultraviolence. "Ultraviolence" is described as an expression of total liberty or social revenge through the creation of chaos. It is noted that preventing such behavior is, at present, very difficult, but that psychology and the human sciences can be utilized to better define individual motivations and understand the people that commit this type of horror.