Offender profiling

School version and the Positivist School version. The Classical School version is based on the premise that crime is committed through free will and rational thought; leading to the conclusion to do wrong (University of Cincinnati, n.d.). These offenders commit crimes because they believed that benefits from the crime outweighs the fear of the punishment if they are ever caught. In other words, these individuals weigh out the possible costs and…

contrast to how the deterrence theory would view criminal punishment. Deterrence theory would see this as a possibility to deter crime as it could use an individual for general deterrence. By labeling the individual as an offender (possible even labeling them as a specific type of offender), the deterrence theory can make an example out of the individual with the type of sanction that is given. This would basically be a warning message sent out to the community to not stray off the path and…

Module two gave me an understanding on crimes and characteristics of offenders, statistics, and the factor that contribute to an increase in crime. Also how to evaluate crimes of violence, cultural context, and typology of violent offenders. One of the interesting subjects I learned, was about The National Crime Victimization Survey. “NCVS is an annual data collection that identifies the number and type of criminal victimization that happen in the United States each year” (Crime in the U.S.) The…

Each different subspecialty within this profession has its own responsibilities, roles, and historic landmarks it was brought upon. Although, each requires the forensic psychologists evaluations, research, assessments, counseling, profiling, and foundation of knowledge in both psychology and criminal justice or law. From 1921 to the present, many landmark cases and findings and helped to strengthen this profession. With new research findings, techniques, and subspecialties we are able…

Ultimately, we of course want to provide a safe and secure country for it’s inhabitants. But, how can we do so when our justice system is distorting facts and leading police and the public to infer wrongful profiling? While the intent is to curb crime, we should focus more on curbing crime in respective areas by using area specific analytics rather than mass analytics. For example, using an idea from Micheal Levin, “Statistically, young black males are more likely…

Racial Profiling One of the challenging and harsh aspects of racial profiling is the alienation that different communities feel from law enforcements. Whether it is done rationally or irrationally, there are situations will people will feel disrespected, mistrusted, and discriminated towards. With this it could lead to people cooperating less with law enforcement agencies or lead to an increase in crime because of the legal system (Thomsen, 2011, p. 106). Another challenge of racial profiling…

Law enforcement officials are human and they often encounter situations where they fear for their life or the safety of others. Used in the right manner, and in the appropriate context, racial profiling can serve to be a valuable tool to an officer and the community he/she serves. The majority of my perceptions about African Americans stem from personal experience as well as the media broadcasts, with the latter being the majority. I grew up in…

continuously is the subject of racial profiling by law enforcement. Racial profiling by law enforcement is the decision to stop, search, investigate and arrest someone relevant to consideration of racial, sexual, or religious characteristics. . Racial Profiling enables law enforcement to successfully identify potential criminal activity and criminals perhaps this is why profiling has flourished because it has been legitimized as a quasi-science. Profiling is certainly related to stereotyping…

In the movie by Booth (2007), “American Drug War: The Last White Hope” African American, Rick Ross is mentioned as one of the most famous drug offenders in the 1980’s, who was blamed for the cocaine epidemic that harmed black communities. He explained that as he grew his dream was not to be a dealer, rather a tennis player in college but under the circumstances he saw a new horizon in selling cocaine. Illiterate and living in poverty, Ross explains that the attractiveness of cocaine was the…

Geographic profiling is most useful in cases where the same person or group of persons has committed a number of crimes such as murders, sexual assaults, robberies, bombings, or arsons. It is particularly helpful when offenders commit crimes at different sites, where two crimes are committed at once, or in cases where an assault or theft of a victim’s credit card is subsequently used at various locations (Rossmo, 2000). Geographical profiling is not merely a set of mathematical equations, but is…