DNA profiling

“Citizen and the Terrorist”, written by Leti Volpp and “No Such thing as Racial Profiling”, authored by Jelani Cobb elaborated on the heated debate surrounding the mistreatment of minorities by government and law enforcement officials. Volpp centralizes her article on the dangers of classifying and targeting of minorities, where as, Cobb centers his argument of the effects of targeting. Notwithstanding some serious deliberation after reading these articles, it can be easily ascertained that…

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…

Racial Profiling used by Police officers With the issue of racial profiling it is described by Risse “ that there is significant correlation between membership in certain racial groups and the tendency to commit certain crimes”(Risse M). Describing that many crimes are only committed by only few and select racial groups. There has been many studies that investigate police on the issue. This was even stated by Langan saying “Traffic stops are the single most frequent type of police-citizen…

Theodore Robert Bundy or widely known as Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer in the 1970s, in which he raped and murdered young women in several states. Report states that his murder episodes begin in the 1975 when he moved away from his home to Salt Lake City (McCall, 1980). It is said that he lured young women into his car before driving to a secluded place, he will raped them before beating them to death (McCall, 1980). His victims were usually young women from ordinary household (Gehrke,…

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…

This paper investigates racial profiling. Racial profiling is a common term that describes the practice of targeting minorities by law enforcements for stops, searches or possible arrest. Over the past years, blacks, Hispanics, Arabs and Muslims (minorities) has received unfair treatments based solely on their race. Such as the phrases “driving while black, flying while Arab and flying while Muslim.” In an extreme way racial profiling can possible lead to police brutality. As defined police…

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…

According to the American Heritage dictionary a serial killer is " A person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents." Often, people don't take a deep look into what a serial killer is or does, and why America is struggling with so many of these offenders. If people looked at types of serial killers, their motives and their victims everyone could create shared meaning of the exact definition of a serial killer. The FBI's "Crime Classification Manual" breaks…

people are terrorists which is a form of ethnic profiling. Ahmed’s focus on pathos through the use of his own examples is effective to the reader of his article. Overall, Ahmed shares experiences of being racially profiled, examples and how the media influences these races. Ahmed knows the end to racial profiling is not going to be an easy task however, with people becoming more aware of what is going on, there could be a drastic decrease in profiling. Become aware to put an end to races being…

First this paper will discuss who is the Zodiac. The Zodiac is a self-proclaimed killer. He was linked to five murders and taunted the police in northern California during 1966 to 1974. In October of 1966 the Zodiac killed a young woman, then in December of 1968 he killed two teens, he also killed another two young women in July and September of 1969, and a middle aged man in October of 1969. The Zodiac was also famous for his anonymous letters to taunt the police. On the website…