1) According to the article by Kocsis and Palermo (2015), what characteristics have traditionally been used in creating offender profiles? What do the authors consider problematic when evaluating trait-based profiling?
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The DQ response must be at least 200 words and should have at least one reference in APA format
2) Write a 100-word response to each student in first person as if you were writing it to the students. Talk about how you agree with their ideas and add your own thoughts. Make sure it’s respectful.
Student1) I had to read the article by Kocsis and Palermo tierce to get a thorough understanding of its intent. It is stated in the very start of the reading that homology assumption is the difficult problem at hand (Kocsis and Palermo, 2015). According to Kocsis and Palermo (2015), offender homology “assumes an inherent consistency amongst offenders that is thought to strengthen the analytic process incumbent to criminal reporting (p. 313). The characteristics that have remained in creating profiling have been used in the past from other surveys. In these surveys, numerous profilers, investigators, students, and psychologists all faced specific profiling duties in a murder and sexual assault case (Kocsis and Palermo, 2015). Only characteristics of the real offenders have being known by the profilers, detectives etc. From line-up to several choice opinion poll numerous characteristics of criminal’s were offering to the groups. Their projections of criminal profiling have been precise. Establishing the realities of the time and place of a crime and bringing together the connection are a few of the characteristics these persons consider.
It was discovered that trait-based profiling needed precision when studying criminal profiling. Kocsis and Palermo (2015) said that “…amongst the profilers who employ trait-based paradigms must not be apparent as these methods are unenforceable as they are reliant on the unsupported idea of offender homology: (p. 314). The problems with trait-based profiling is that there is disagreement among the establishing of representation of the subject matter of criminal profiling. Personality theory is an instance for one. Labeling theory was not a problem. The separation between offender/crime typologies is the dispute when establishing criminal profiles (Kocsis and Palermo, 2015). In the end title “disentangling accuracy and homology” describes the tricky problems. Trait-based profiling needed accuracy when considering criminal profiling as stated earlier. The procedure of criminal profiling may be restricted to some requirements and procedures. Additional study would have to be done to completely consider trait-based profiling.
Reference:
Kocsis, R. N., & Palermo, G. B. (2015). Disentangling Criminal Profiling: Accuracy, Homology, and the Myth of Trait-Based Profiling. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 59(3), 313–332. Retrieved from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306624×13513429
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