The investigated violent crimes that came came under the jurisdiction of the FBI. As they both progressed in their career they began to study why some offenders committed violent crime and some who became serial killers. In the Ressler book “Whoever Fights Monsters” the violent offender was wrote about. Ressler wanted to show the offenders make-up of why they committed violent crimes, how their family dynamics at their early ages might have caused their violent behavior. Ressler focused a majority of his writing around some of the well known serial killers and violent offenders with such names as Manson, Bundy, and Kemper.
Describe and Discuss Offender Profiling Douglas and Burgess (1986) define offender profiling as ‘an investigation technique by which to identify the major personality and behavioural characteristic of the offender based upon an analysis of the crime(s) he or she has committed’. Profiling began in the USA in the 1960s/1970s, when the FBI specialists were trained to infer personality and behavioural traits of an offender by detailed analysis of the way he or she committed the crime. The technique was initially devised to help narrow down the search for serial offenders in apparently motiveless cases of murder and rape. Offender profiling is also known as crime scene analysis, or criminal investigate analysis, as it involves forming hypotheses about an offender based on analysis of the crime scene, victim and existing knowledge about offender behaviour. Early work on offender profiling by the FBI indicated a broad distinction between organised offenders and disorganised offenders.
Los Angeles County and Racial Discrimination Does one single race commit more crime than any other? The idea seems true because the Los Angeles County Police Department uses race as a factor in detecting crime. Although classifying individuals by their skin tone seems wrong, in some cases the reasons are justified. For example, the country had to racially profile all people of Middle-Eastern descent to be a terrorist after September eleven. This classification makes sense because if crime is caused by terrorists; terrorist will cause crimes.
DHL and the men could not reach an agreement, therefore, on behalf of the federal government, the EEOC helped to process the charges and pursue litigation. The EEOC has filed racial discrimination charges against DHL. African Americans have been the subject of discrimination since the 1600s when they were brought to America as slaves. From 1890 to 1940 the Jim Crow laws enacted throughout The United States openly segregated Black and White Americans in public places. Black Americans were publically beaten, frightened, and even killed (Magar, 2010).
(n.d.) Even though San Antonio had a much higher population rate than Dallas, looking at the Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics for Dallas and San Antonio shows that Dallas had more reported crimes and higher violent crime incidents. Dallas reported 9,161 violent crimes in 2010 while San Antonio only reported 546 in 2010. This shows me that either the crime rate was very low in San Antonio or the crimes went unreported by the Community or Police Departments. If I just
Looking at the numbers, the statistics are astonishing. The article, “Jim Crow Policing”, by Bob Herbert published the New York Times on February 2, 2010 addressed the issue of Racial Profiling in law enforcement in New York. The author finds racial profiling to be unnecessary and an abomination towards mankind/society. There have been other situations such as Mike Brown who was an unarmed black teenager that was shot and killed in 2014, by a white police officer, in St. Louis. There are other cases such as the movie, 42, which
Racial profiling does exist, and I believe is quite prevalent, whether it’s a Black male being pulled over for no apparent reason, or someone of Middle-Eastern descent being “randomly” checked at an airport, racial profiling is definitely used. The idea behind racial profiling is that by targeting the groups of people that have higher crime rates, more criminals will be caught. But it is because of this racial profiling that these certain groups of people are determined to have higher crime rates and commit more crime. Law enforcements solution to protecting public safety by racial profiling only extenuates the idea that a certain group of people commit more crime than another group. In my opinion racial profiling doesn’t serve any legitimate purpose in catching more criminals.
Stereotypes Three stereotypes that I have encountered in my life have had to do with African Americans. I myself am an African American male. One of the most common stereotypes that I have encounter was African American males are violent. African American males are commonly associated with crime, even though it is proven by the FBI that the majority of crimes in the United States are caused by Caucasians and Hispanics. According to the FBI, in 2008 there were a total of 10,662,206 arrests in the United States, 69.2% of the people arrested were Caucasians, 28.3 % African Americans, 1.3% American Indians or Alaskan Natives and 1.1% Asian or Pacific Islanders.
Offender profiling is the establishing of a hypothesis to identify a criminal via examining the evidence accumulated from a crime scene, this helps authorities narrow down searches for individuals with traits that correlate with signatures of the crime, one such noted profiler was Robert Ressler. In discussing the FBI approach to offender profiling, it is essential to draw focus on the methodology developed by Ressler and how it is utilised by authorities in addition to its strengths and limitations. In this context offender profiling is used when examining crimes involving serial murders of a sexual nature. The FBI profile emerges from stages, the process begins with what is termed the Assimilation Stage. Evidence of the crime scene is obtained, this would include photographs or an in person examining of the scene, a profile of the victim (including their pathology reports), witness statements and DNA analyses of the victim and the offender.
It highlights differences between the behaviours of criminals and consistencies within the behaviour of individual offenders. Ainsworth also points out that the US ‘crime scene analysis’ has been very influential as it has been successfully used in other countries e.g. Canada and the Netherlands. It helps the police predict the level of violence and the timing of future crimes. Douglas (1981) conducted a review for the FBI on the costs and benefits of profiling.