Racial Profiling Essay

Have you ever wanted to be that person on the crime shows, the person that who interrogates the suspects and proves them guilty? Forensic Psychology is the intersection between psychology and the the justice system. Essentially, Forensic Psychology involves applying psychology in the field of criminal investigation and the law. Forensic Psychologists are involved in both criminal and civil matters (custody disputes, insurance claims, and civil lawsuits). Forensic psychologists evaluate…

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American who lived on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. After an incident On February 27, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement, or AIM, together with a number of local and traditional Native Americans began their seventy-two-day occupation of Wounded Knee. Their goal was to protest injustices against their tribes, violations of the many treaties, and current abuses and repression against their people. The United States government responded with a…

Before the 19th century, witness testimonies were viewed as the ‘smoking gun’ during court proceedings. In the 1930s, French criminologist and forensics pioneer Dr. Edmond Locard outlined his theory of exchange in the American Journal of Police Science (Solanki, 2013). Locard’s exchange principle was derived from the concept that if one makes contact with another person, place or thing, physical materials are inevitably exchanged. Therefore, when applied to a crime scene, a criminal cannot…

Ten people in the Wichita, Kansas area between the years 1974 and 1991 were brutally murdered by Dennis Lynn Rader a.k.a the BTK Strangler. After years of fear and horror the BTK Strangler was identified and captured by police. This would not have been possible if the police investigating murders in the area were unable to connect the killings, create a profile of the killer, and then use that information to build evidence against Dennis Rader. The first and arguably the most important step in…

offender profiles discourage the police to arrest the offenders. Next, Craig (2014) introduced that offender profiling is a type of technique in the police investigation. Currently, profiling becomes a prioritized tool of solving a serial offender case. Additionally, serial murder cases mean that the police must fit a particular suspect in a large amount of suspects. However, if offender profiling is confounded, it is quite difficult to conform offenders. The current study proposed that like the…

Serial killer usually targets victim that are in his or her own racial or ethnic group instead of crossing the racial lines (Walsh, 2005). The victims listed that was raped and murdered by Ted Bundy were all white Caucasian women. This may be due to the fact that he chose victim based on the resemblance to her ex-girlfriend in college, but nevertheless, Ted Bundy’s victims were in his own racial or ethnic group. Ted Bundy’s perpetuates another myth of serial killer, where they…

Psychological profiling is the act of using a set of techniques to try to identify perpetrators of serious crime, this style of profiling is normally used by law enforcement agencies. Without the help of these strategies, many mysteries would not be solved and many murder cases would go on without justice. Incidentally, there are several aspects that goes into psychological profiling; Modus operandi, Personation, and Staging. To start with, Modus…

Criminal Profile John Wayne Gacy is one of America’s most notorious serial killers known for his gruesome murders of many young boys and men between 1972-1978. He holds one of the highest victim counts in the world for any murder. Gacy raped, tortured, and strangled 33 young boys to death, he then buried the bodies under his home or dumped some of the bodies in a nearby river. James Haakenson was the most recent victim identified from the John Wayne Gacy killings. James was only 16 years old…

crime they have not done but are in jail. According to the article “DNA Technology and Crime” “In 1992 lawyers Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld created the Innocence Project, a legal organization aimed at overturning wrongful conviction through DNA profiling. Since then, more than two hundred criminal convictions have been overturned in the United States alone.” The Innocence Project is needed to help turn over wrongful convictions that were made. The article “DNA Technology and Crime” stated in…

After reviewing all the evidence I have come to the conclusion that Matthew Maloy Murdered Robert Burlington. I have come to this conclusion using entomology and through the use of fingerprint, blood, tire track, and hair analysis. The fingerprint tests´ showed us that the only people who touched the bloody tire iron were Nicole Burlington and Matthew Maloy. Nicole Burlington is the spouse of the victim so her touching the item is reasonable but Matthew Maloy touching it is strange especially…