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Criminal Minds
Journal Entry #1 For this journal entry I chose to review the television show Criminal Minds, viewed on September 21, 2016. I picked season one episode fifteen “Unfinished Business” for this journal because it goes over profiling a serial killer. Max Ryan retires from the BAU and moves down to Philadelphia in order to continue to unofficially work on a case he’s been doing for eighteen years. He’s been trying to catch the Keystone Killer, which started back up when Ryan had a book opening. Ryan received a word search which was the killer’s way of giving a clue to who he was or his victim. The main issue this episode addresses is the false attempts at trying to construct a profile for a serial killer that suddenly disappears and reappears eighteen years later. In Myths and Realities, it’s stated that profiling hasn’t been found useful when trying to catch a serial killer. The show Criminal Minds is all about the Behavioral Analysis Unit trying to find a killer’s modus operandi. In episode fifteen the Keystone killer apparently switches up his MO and his victim’s age are getting older, yet, Elle Greenaway, clearly states that victimology rarely changes with unsubs. Derek Morgan also has a different …show more content…
In reality, a unit isn’t going to have a person like Reid who looks at word searches that are given to him and finds backward names of accomplices or victims. Also, gathering data of the killer would take more than twenty minutes. The unit can’t fully say the killer is confident based off forced or non-forced entry at the scenes of a killer. Criminal Minds is unrealistic and states facts that can’t be proven in reality. Even if the BAU or any unit nowadays could construct a profile of a killer it won’t prevent or be accurate based on everyone who conforms to that profile. Criminal Minds tends to let viewers believe that profiling a killer is as easy as baking a
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