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    racial profiling, it must first be correctly defined. Although different authors use different criteria for the term racial profiling, Merriam-Webster’s definition for the word racial is “of, relating to, or based on a race (Merriam-Webster, 2006; p.855).” The definition the dictionary puts forth for profiling is “the act of suspecting or targeting a person solely on the basis of observed characteristics or behavior (Merriam-Webster, 2006; p.830).” Based on these definitions, racial profiling could

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    practices is racial profiling. Racial profiling is when law enforcement uses race and ethnicity as grounds to determine if someone, typically of color, is guilty of doing something illegal. Racial profiling is a major problem in this country, this as well affects many citizens that are mainly of color because law enforcement usually sees them as targets, and it is important to improve and fixed this issue because there are many tragic incidents that have been caused of racial profiling. One major problem

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    Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Profiling in the U.S. Imagine a country where crime is significantly reduced due to criminals being apprehended earlier than normal, and foreign or radical attacks becoming less frequent. Now there are some methods that can be used to bring the U.S. to this status, more specifically the use of profiling can accomplish this. The U.S can greatly reduce crime rate and terrorist attacks by using ethnic, racial, ideological profiling to find and apprehend criminals

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    Racial profiling has been an issue in society for as long as America had a criminal justice system. "Racial profiling is a problem because it refers discriminatory practice bye-law enforcement officials of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual 's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin." In 1868, the fourteenth amendment was ratified which states, " No state. Shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," would have made racial

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    The Future of Psychological Profiling CJ430-01: Psychological Profiling Professor William Formby Kaplan University May 18, 2012 The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of psychological profiling as an investigative tool for the future. The paper will try to focus on what happens if profiles are developed that have not accurately portrayed the apprehended. Additionally this paper will be reviewing the Baton Rouge Serial Killer and The Unabomer cases in order to answer additional

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    way someone perceives what type of person you are, dependending upon looks, clothes, and of course race. The act of racial profiling has become more serious than ever; although this problem has been around for centuries, racial profiling has recently gained attention in the news. You may think that the cases broadcasted on the news are the only major cases of racial profiling and that it doesn't happen very often, but in reality it happens quite a bit. When I was in kindergarten I attended a private

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    Abstract This report discusses police profiling on both a statistical, practical and comparative level of understanding using news articles, government statistics and scholarly article to provide an understanding of what profiling is, how it may be applied in a law enforcement setting, arrest statistical data and comparison to modern media and how police profiling and Pitbull aggression are similar to the popular belief of police racial profiling. Keywords: Profiling, Aggression, Arrest data. Analysis

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    behavioral analysis is helpful in the field of law. The use of criminal profiling can be used to capture a criminal, but the criminal profiles produced are not perfect and are not intended to be so. A profiler uses the past as a directory on why they think the suspect is doing what they do and then using it to catch them. Criminal profilers also conduct research and write reports on patterns of criminal behavior The use of criminal profiling can be used to capture a criminal. Dr. James A. Brussel was a psychologist

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    Profiling is broadly defined as a behavioral and investigative technique in forensic science that helps the investigator to profile an unknown subject or offenders, with the analysis of the behavior and circumstances associated with serious crimes in an effort to identify the probable characteristics of the perpetrator. A specific profile analysis or known as criminal investigative analysis by the FBI, offender profiling, criminal personality profiling, behavioral profiling or forensic psychologist

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    Criminal profiling or offender profiling is a process of identifying a likely suspect for a committed crime based on crime scene information, behavioral patterns and habits. The purpose of criminal profiling is to narrow down the size of the suspect pool. By identifying behavioral tendencies, personality traits, geographic location, as well as demographic and biographic descriptions of the offender the number of suspects is decreased. Profiling relies on the idea that people are creatures of habit

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