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Psychic Criminology
The use of psychics in the investigation and jury selection
of civil and criminal cases. This controversial technique has grown in the decades
following World War II due to the publicized successes of various celebrity psychics. The
primary technique is psychometry,
handling objects, such as discarded weapons or the belongings of victims, and sensing
their 'vibrations', which can provide information to help solve the crime.
Throughout history seers and dowsers
have been sought out to help locate missing persons and solve crimes. Psychic detection
was used in Europe during and after World War I. In 1925 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator
of Sherlock Holmes, predicted that the detectives of the future would be clairvoyants or
would use clairvoyants. By the latter part of the twentieth century, hundreds of psychics
were working regularly with police in the United States, Britain, and Europe, though their
success was erratic. Police departments remain divided over the effectiveness of psychics.
Some make regular use of selected individuals and have established written procedures for
doing so; others feel psychics make no difference in solving cases. Departments that do
use psychics often are reluctant to admit it publicly.
See
Remote Viewing,
Clairaudience,
Clairsentience,
Telepathy,
Psychometry,
Metagnomy,
Precognition,
Animal PSI,
Seance,
Materialization,
Asport,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing; (2) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group.
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