Factors That Can Affect Criminal Profilers
Factors that can affect profilers:
1. Media. There are a lot of movies and TV series that has the portrayal of Criminal Profiling as their main subject to entertain the viewers. It is interesting to note that all of these popular portrayals of profiling are somewhat inaccurate because they suggest that profiling is a magical skill somewhat analogous to a precognitive psychic ability thus, the audience perceives it to be the case. Media is the downfall of profiling as well as the success.
2. It is a mental process. “To see is to believe.” It is still questionable nowadays maybe because of ignorance and its nature that involves the application of imagination in creating a scenario. That’s why in my own opinion, it is where the media had their idea of making look like a fantasy in their creation of movies and TV series. Since it is mental process by its nature it demands physical evidence and the only means of proving it is when the police was able to catch the suspect by the characteristics made by the profiler and was able to convict him.
3. Resources: Many persons feel that criminal profiling is limited and can lead to misidentification (i.e., incarcerating an innocent person). Police may often have only a limited set of facts with which to create a criminal profile. Also, there are many arguments that criminal profiling has been based on stereotypes, especially with regards to a suspect’s race, cultural background, and religious beliefs.
4. Behavioral Consistency: Much of criminal profiling relies on the assumption that the criminal's behavior is consistent across scenarios. The problem with this is that while a person's general behavior may be consistent in his day-to-day life, this can easily change when presented with novel situations.
5. Stereotyping: Stereotyping is a bad idea in many situations. In the sense of criminal profiling, stereotyping means adding information to the profile that is not supported by the crime scene.
1. Media. There are a lot of movies and TV series that has the portrayal of Criminal Profiling as their main subject to entertain the viewers. It is interesting to note that all of these popular portrayals of profiling are somewhat inaccurate because they suggest that profiling is a magical skill somewhat analogous to a precognitive psychic ability thus, the audience perceives it to be the case. Media is the downfall of profiling as well as the success.
2. It is a mental process. “To see is to believe.” It is still questionable nowadays maybe because of ignorance and its nature that involves the application of imagination in creating a scenario. That’s why in my own opinion, it is where the media had their idea of making look like a fantasy in their creation of movies and TV series. Since it is mental process by its nature it demands physical evidence and the only means of proving it is when the police was able to catch the suspect by the characteristics made by the profiler and was able to convict him.
3. Resources: Many persons feel that criminal profiling is limited and can lead to misidentification (i.e., incarcerating an innocent person). Police may often have only a limited set of facts with which to create a criminal profile. Also, there are many arguments that criminal profiling has been based on stereotypes, especially with regards to a suspect’s race, cultural background, and religious beliefs.
4. Behavioral Consistency: Much of criminal profiling relies on the assumption that the criminal's behavior is consistent across scenarios. The problem with this is that while a person's general behavior may be consistent in his day-to-day life, this can easily change when presented with novel situations.
5. Stereotyping: Stereotyping is a bad idea in many situations. In the sense of criminal profiling, stereotyping means adding information to the profile that is not supported by the crime scene.