Offender profiling

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…

as racial profiling. Hispanics, Asians, African, and Americans are mostly targeted. Racial profiling tends to lead to racism and fear. The impacts extends much more for those whom directly experience it. Racial profiling has become a tremendous issue in today's society and will continue to affect future generations. By affecting people psychologically, having an impact on people's jobs, changed the environment and has also destroyed public confidence in law enforcement. Racial profiling has very…

situation has a different context and therefore a should have a different consequence. 2. The percentage of crime offenders by race very closely matches the race percentage of those who are incarcerated. (“California: The Color of Crime”; Inmate Statistics) These figures speak for themselves and people attempting to making an argument against police discretion due to racial profiling should be fully informed of the statistics. “Police discretion is a vague term that has an appropriately vague…

Introduction DNA profiling, also known as genetic fingerprinting is a method used to identify and evaluate genetic information/DNA in an individual. It is common knowledge that each individual (excluding identical twins) has a unique DNA sequence which makes DNA profiling the most appropriate method of determining paternal relationships and solving crimes. DNA samples can be analysed to produce a DNA profile which can be used as evidence in criminal investigations when matched to samples of…

Racial profiling is a common law enforcement practice that happens in many different places in American society. It often focuses and singles out different races, religions, ethnicities, or skin color of people. Many professionals question whether it can be justiciable under certain circumstance where it could prevent a massive amount of people from being harm or to apprehend criminals before they commit crimes. Others protest that the practice is unnecessary and causes more harm than good. This…

past couple of years, Canada has witnessed the issue of racial profiling gain increasingly amount of prominence from the public, as an increasing number of minorities reside in urban cities, while at the same time becoming targets by the police force on the account of their race. Despite the fact that this is a vital issue that several modern policing agencies face, they have been robust in denying even the mere thought of racial profiling. Rather, they have insisted on not targeting “who”, but…

Racial Profiling Introduction Have you ever been racially profiled? Do you even understand why officers tend to racial profile certain individual (e.g.; African American, and Mexicans)? Well, if you have never been racially profile you are lucky or just a Caucasian. To this learner, she has been racial profile the majority of her life, but one thing I was fortunate to learn is that it is not this learner who is the problem, but the color of her skin and the system that allows it to continue to…

affecting the government, general public and crime detectives. Biological Significance DNA Profiling is a forensic process utilised to identify individuals by the characteristics of their DNA. It differentiates from other forensic identification processes because it remains the same overtime, unlike fingerprints and has a higher accuracy than biometric iris scanners. The first methods used for DNA profiling for finding out genetics involved restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP)…

Racial profiling by the police has become a controversial issue in recent years. Racial profiling is the practice of targeting individuals for police or security detention based on their race or ethnicity in the belief that certain minority groups are more likely to engage in unlawful behavior. Examples of racial profiling by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in legal settlements and data collected by governmental agencies and private groups, suggesting that minorities are…

It was 1990 in Goldsboro, North Carolina where the phantom known by society as the Night Stalker had wandered around the streets brutally attacking elderly women. Raped and almost murdered, an elderly woman was attacked in March saved merely by her daughter’s early arrival. Materials had been left behind for the intention to burn the residence for the sheer reason to conceal the crime. Three months later, the same crime had been committed along with the attempt of murder of her husband. Before…