Racial Disparities in America’s Judicial System The mandatory imprisonment policies written for the judicial system are creating disparity of minority inmate population primarily due to non-violent drug crimes and the unjust mandatory minimum sentencing laws. America’s prisons are the most populated in the world‚ and they are disproportionately populated by minorities due to the set of mandatory imprisonment policies set in place. Over the past five decades‚ the disparity between races has widened
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Recent Developments in Geographical Profiling Geographical profiling is defined as a method for evaluating locations connected to a crime in order to identify the probable area of an offender’s home location‚ place of work‚ or other relevant locations based off of nomothetic data and assumptions (Turvey‚ 2012). Dr. Darcy Kim Rossmo‚ a Canadian criminologist‚ is accredited for his influence on geographical profiling. Rossmo concluded in his research that offender’s geographical correlation to a crime
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Warehouse Profiling I. Problem Statement A warehouse is a complicated and busy place and it can be hard to get an accurate sense of what is happening. Warehouse activity profiling is the careful measure and statistical analysis of warehouse activity. This is a necessary first step to almost any significant warehouse project: Understand the customer orders‚ which drive the system. Two types of data are applied to profile the warehouse: data pertaining to each sku and data pertaining to customer
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Sample Data used for this example: User Id is : 2011143967 Tags Hits FIFA World Cup 2014 2186 Web Exclusive 1647 Football 1320 Special 1296 Brazil 1224 Uruguay 845 Argentina 775 Netherlands 756 Greece 703 Method 1 Tag Counting: In this method‚ we simply count the number of hits that user has generated on a tag. For example‚ data is stored as shown in the table above. Then we select the top 3-4 tags that the user interested in‚ in order to profile the user. Advantages:
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While offender profiling is a significant part of the criminal justice system the exact definition of this practice tends to vary from source to source‚ overall the general consensus is that it is “an investigative technique by which to identify the major personality and behavioral characteristics of the offender based upon an analysis of the crime(s) he or she has committed” (FBI‚ 1998). Although having grown in popularity in the recent decades profiling criminals based on behavior patterns is
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Societies’ Misconceptions Concerning Criminal Profiling Media attention on understanding the psyche of the criminal mind – lawbreaker’s behavioral and mental processes‚ culture identity‚ and daily routines – has made a recent resurgence in America’s society. However‚ recent findings are questioning the validity of criminal profiling‚ and its ability to accurately contribute to identifying criminals using psychology. Rather‚ it seems to be founded on conjecture and the ability to make educated
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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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Formal profiling is said to be started in 1956 when the New York City police asked help from psychiatrist James Brussel to study crime scene photos and notes of the “mad bomber” George Metesky‚ who was able to elude the police for 16 years (Winerman‚ 2004). According to the same article‚ some of the psychiatrist’s judgments were based on psychological ideas and since then‚ the police has started to confer with the experts in the field to construct profiles of difficult- to- catch lawbreakers. Much
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updating of student records‚ it takes time in retrieving their records. For safekeeping and fast data processing‚ development of a Computerized Profiling System should be in hand. This study is designed to achieve effectivity in collecting and retrieving of student records. The Office of the Student Services has not yet established a Computerized Profiling System. Thus the researchers propose a development of a database for student profile for the benefit of the students and office of the student
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reflections of this paper discuss the wage gap between black and white workers in the United State labor market. According to a study‚ in the past four decades‚ black workers fall behind in their wages‚ making less than the white workers‚ due to racial discrimination. Although‚ a study‚ researchers from the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute‚ said a disparity which disparity is lack of similarity or equality concerning the wage gap needed the governments’ official’s attention to
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