Criminal Profiling

In this picture, you see brutally tortured women. The images are of women who were murdered by Jack the Ripper. Although everyone can agree that these murders were committed by an idiotic sociopath, there are a group of people called profilers who see much more than that. Profilers use a new science called behavioral analysis to capture criminals. They do this by analyzing the crime scene, victimology, and other aspects of the crime in order to find patterns in the criminal's behavior. For example, Jack the Ripper was a notorious killer of prostitutes in England during the late 1800s. Jack the Ripper was never caught because the police were looking for a mentally unstable man. However, modern day profilers say that he would have seemed perfectly normal. By studying the victimology, they found that he killed older prostitutes, so Jack the Ripper was probably in his late thirties to early forties. He was a single man, and a loner, which is known because he would not have been able to evade the police and conceal the murders so well if he was married or had friends. By examining the level of torture of his victims, profilers say that Jack the Ripper hated women and harbored lots of hatred and resentment towards them. Today, many people do not believe that behavioral profiling is effective, but I disagree. The police were looking for the wrong type of man and if behavioral profiling had been around during that time, Jack the Ripper would have been apprehended. This picture is convincing and appeals to emotion because it is heartbreaking. No person should have to endure this type of torture, or have another person decide that their life needs to come to an end. Most people would want the police to do everything in their power to prevent this from happening, and behavioral profiling can help to make sure it does not.