Criminal Profiling Week 1 Discussion questions 1. Analyze inductive/deductive reasoning. Inductive criminal investigative assessments: The inductive approach to profiling is a based on the simple premise that "If certain crimes committed by different people are similar‚ then the offenders must also share some type of personality traits. (Holmes & Holmes‚ 2009)" Inductive reasoning seems to be the more "scientific" of the two as it is strictly based on criminals that have committed the
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all dealing with many different problems. Criminal profiling is one of the fields of the FBI that stood out to me. Profiling is somewhat glorified on the television‚ but this job is not what people make of it. Profiling is a major part in finding a suspect in a case. For my career project‚ I chose to research the job profession of a criminal profiler. Timothy Roufa‚ Major and Chief Technology Officer of law enforcement‚ describes criminal profiling as‚ “Investigators who specialize in inductive and
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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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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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Psychometrics History of Psychological Profiling In the early 19th century‚ when astronomers timed the passage of stars overhead‚ they noticed that they all came up with different results. They chalked these individual differences up to differences in what they called the "personality" of the eye. Even as far back as the mid-1800’s‚ distinguished scholars were championing the whole person as a unit of study. From that point forward‚ individual psychologists began to conceptualize personality
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Date rape Danette Burnette American Intercontinental University Abstract My paper is about date rape. All over the world about every 2 minutes‚ a woman or child gets rape or abused. It does not matter when they are or day or night. If more woman came forward and talk it would help the world to get it much cleaner. To society‚ it is not a real case. Date rape is a very difficult thing to understand. Date rape is a common thing now days. It could be bring on by drinking too much or by someone
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Racial Classification Black‚ white‚ orange‚ green or purple? What is the difference? The way I look at it is if everyone in the world was colorblind then we wouldn’t know if other people were different colors or not. "If we stop obsessing on race‚ people may actually become colorblind" (Blumner). Almost every battle in our history was started because of some sort of racial controversy. From the 1800’s to present day theses battles have occurred especially the one of September 11‚ 2001.
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Angeles Police Department which used professional policing. From Rodney King beating in 1991 through the O.J. Simpson trial‚ the rift has widened the threatening racial discrimination. The reasons for the gap are complex and deep. According to the experts‚ it is based on the nation ’s painful racial history. The current practice of racial profiling‚ where skin color is a criterion to pull over a driver is ongoing today. For instance‚ when Reggie Miller‚ who is Black‚ had been ordered to pull over by a
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Performance Profiling: According to Butler (1996) Performance Profiling is based on a model of human behaviour called Personal Construct Theory. It is a way of understanding how athletes rate the skills and qualities of their own performance in relation to their sport (Butler‚ 1996). Clark (2005) states Performance profiling is useful to identify an athletes’ strengths and weaknesses and is also useful for the implementation of goal setting strategies and performance enhancing strategies. The Performance
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Investigative Interrogative Profiling Name and Surname Abstract In this report the profile of Hitler and Mussolini were presented and compared. Charismatic‚ Transformational‚ Narcissistic and Visionary styles of leadership were briefly introduced. As a result‚ an analysis of Hitler’s or Mussolini’s traits assigning them to any of these styles has been possible. The comparison of their activity as leaders has been carried out. In the conclusion of this report‚ the final verdict over their suitability
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