Forensic profiling

Theodore Robert Cowell also known as Ted Bundy who was born on November 24, 1946 in Burlington, Vermont was an American serial killer, kidnapper, rapist, and necrophile. He confessed to 30 homicides committed in seven states between 1974 and 1978 yet the confession, the number of victims could be much higher and remains unknown. After ted died the man who defended ted which would be his lawyer confessed ted had killed more than 100 women. He also revealed that even though ted was a necrophile,…

varying sizes in a mixture by moving them through a block of gel, as of agarose or polyacrylamide, by means of an electric field, with smaller molecules moving faster and therefore farther than larger ones. Gel electrophoresis of DNA is used in DNA profiling. When DNA is found at a crime scene, it's sent to a investigation lab. The DNA is extracted from cells and run through gel electrophoresis. Samples of DNA are also taken from suspects and run through the same process. When pieces of DNA…

When many people think of a serial killer they think of Hannibal Lecter, although he is fictional, or Jeffrey Dahmer. A serial killer is someone who murders at least three people that fit a specific category weather it is based on gender, race, wealth, age, religion, or any other characteristic (Serial Killer 2001). Serial killers have intrigued and frightened people in American culture for decades. One of the more horrifying aspects of serial killers is that there is no way of distinguishing…

The Use of DNA Testing Problems are a part of everyday life; some are just bigger than others. Problems within the judicial system are very important issues to be covered. There is a reason that this is a problem and many proposed solutions. DNA testing needs to be used in the judicial system to help eliminate wrongfully convicted citizens. DNA evidence is not used enough in trials. This is a problem because states have the technology and resources available to them and still conviction…

Sadly in the flawed world that we live in, there are people who have clouded judgments and cannot function rationally. There are people who can commit malicious acts and justify them by their own means that do not necessarily make sense to a sane person. Unfortunately some of these people are psychopaths and serial killers. One of the first serial killers documented in America was Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. He created a hotel in Chicago in 1893 for The World’s Columbian Exhibition. This event…

Netflix’s Making A Murder, Glaspell’s A Jury of Her Peers, 48 Hours’ Nightmare in Napa, and the podcast Serial are all examples of popular true crime medias. People enjoy true crime because its purpose is to inform and entertain others. True crime medias are made to educate the public about peculiar parts of life that are not discussed in a normal, day-to-day conversation. Learning about true crime allows others to be capable of looking at life through a different lens. When looking through a…

Over the years, racial profiling has become a widely talked about subject. Racial profiling means the police use a person’s race as an important factor in their decisions to stop and question people. While this mostly happens with traffic stops, it can happen in other contexts as well. In a study done in the early 2000s, out of 1,087 police chiefs, they found that 60% of them believe that policing that was racially biased was not a problem in their jurisdiction and an additional to this, there…

Mandatory DNA Testing Policy: Many disciplines of forensic science, including DNA analysis, are undergoing change in the United States and around the world. The validity and accuracy of older and even current methods are being challenged. New approaches for interpreting evidence via probabilistic modeling are being introduced. A better appreciation of difficulties that can exist for the field of forensic science is gained when the diverse cultures of scientific laboratories, law enforcement, and…

Targets of racial profiling are working on a movement to abolish it. Washington has already responded to the movement to stop the visibility and assertiveness of racial profiling. Policy proposals responding to the movement threaten to distract from its most crucial goals, undermine its interests, and ultimately intensify mass incarceration. The real problem that the government continues to ignore is a legal system granting police broad latitude to commit civil rights violations (Buttar). The…

Criminal profiling or offender profiling is a sequence of investigative techniques utilized to establish characteristics of unknown criminal. Through criminal profiling, a profiler relates the information from the crime scene to known personality and behaviors attributes resultant from past crimes of other offenders who showed similar traits. The aim of doing this is to attempt to solve the crime and catch the criminal. The FBI has never demonstrated beyond reproach that this method is reliable…