Offender Profiling

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Offender Profiling

It is said that race and one’s own household income may be related to they types of crime offenders commit, specifically rapists. However, there are many assumptions that may prove this statement true or false. In the article of “offender profiling”, the writer states that there are seven characteristics schemes for a rapists. Antisocial behavior, expressive aggression, pervasive anger, sexualization, non sadistic sexual/compensatory, overt sadism, and offensive planning. Out of the seven, it is has been a consistent fact that “the overall best predictive accuracy for rapists is expressive aggression”. Since there have been many studies to a rapists’ behavior, it has been easier to predict the form of way the rapist will leave the crime scene. If a rapists has a record of a criminal background and with the same offense, it is very likely that the next offense will be the same offense with the same planning of the crime. Psychological factors such as antisocial behavior or a criminal background do play major roles in determining the form in which the rapist offends a victim. I have to agree with the fact that if a person has a background of criminal behavior and has done the crime more than once, the rape offender is most likely to do the crime again. Also, profiling is common in the modern world as what we call today. It is so commonly known that minorities, especially Hispanics and blacks are more likely to commit these crimes. Society puts more stress into these two groups eventually labeling all blacks and Hispanics to be known as rape offenders. But the truth comes out when we look at the statistics.
There is not one single race that does not commit a crime. It is the area of crime that the racial background of a person comes to play a role of the type of crime committed. Form example, in the article, the writer shows a chart of white men and the percentage of crime they have comm...