Criminal Justice

A Rhetoric Analysis of Crime Scene Profiling The author focuses on the dramatic nature of a crime scene profiling and the technique used to infer the motivations that lay behind a baffling but rapid familiar human act or else the “the stranger killing.” The article argues that the technique of interpreting the crime scene is essentially rhetoric and employs the element of Elliott Leyton dramatistic pentad. Serial crimes have been happening and explosions of violence in different ways. They suggest a level of anger and socially motivated vengeance that is sometimes hard to understand why such incidences occur. However, the work of the Canadian anthropologist Elliott Leyton, as well as that of...