Offender Profile Evaluation

The aim of the study was to determine the accuracy of the predictions of offender profiles, which allows law enforcement and investigators to theoretically prioritize certain subjects. Profiling is used to find a particular subject which committed the particular crime. The profile must be accurate meaning the construct of the profile must allow for a certain individual to be identified. The construct has been criticized as being too general with its statements and the profile being overall to ambiguous, allowing for many possible suspects to fit the profile descriptions. The current study purposed that, like the participates in the early Barnum studies, individuals can allow certain subjects or situations to fit the apparent statement, …show more content…
The use of offender profiling is used to prioritize certain suspects when investigating certain crimes with the use of specific characteristics and behaviours. This idea isn’t reliable with the indication of these results. If the profile is theoretically supposed to specific traits and behaviours to locate an individual, then the study shouldn’t have had no differences between the groups. The groups indicated that using the same profile the two different suspects were able to fit the profile …show more content…
This is important as the results are able to convey how experienced individuals use would use profiling in actual on the job work. However, there were some limitations to which should be addressed. A limitation to the study was there was only one subject which the participate was used to rate and analyze in accordance with the profile. Future research examining the perception of offender profiling with the use of more suspects could be implicated and is highly recommended. Offender profiling is not a useful tool for finding a suspect for a crime. The research conducted concluded that the statements in the profile are generic allowing for many suspects to pertain to the same profile. This profiling can cause an individual to be accused of crimes they didn’t commit and allow people to become locked for having generic personality traits. These research findings should be considered when profiling is used and should not be the determinate of whether an individual is