Three Types Of Profiling: The Railroad Killer

Investigators use three types of profiling. Geographic profiling focuses on the area on which a criminal commits its acts. This profiling relies on the idea that serial criminal commits his crimes on what they call a “comfort zone”. This method helped caught the infamously serial killer “The railroad Killer”. Although this method has helped, it should never be solely relied on. The only way that a crime can be solved is by having an eyewitness, a confession and evidence. On the other hand, the worse type of offender profiling is what we call racial profiling. This type of criminal profiling focuses on race when deciding whether person has a connection to a crime or not. In a study conducted by Stanford researchers (2016), police officers