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Brianna Lee
Mrs. DeBock
English IV
29, October 2015

Research Question: How does other areas of police enforcement feel about the help that criminal
profilers provide, is it helpful or useless?
Working Thesis: Many people have opinions in other law enforcements about criminal profilers.
Thesis Statement: Other law enforcements in the system have many different opinions of criminal
profilers such as how they could benefit their work or how criminal profilers interfering on a case could
just not be a waste of time of not helpful at all.
Annotated Bibliography
Gekoski, Anna, and Jacqueline M. Gray. "'It May Be True, but How's It Helping?' UK Police Detectives'
Views of the Operational Usefulness of Offender Profiling." International Journal of Police
Science & Management, Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
Profiling has traditionally been defined as the process of using all the available information
about a crime, a crime scene, and a victim. Police offers think that it is perfectly possible for a profile to
be entirely accurate yet unhelpful because its generality renders negligible operational application. There
used to be only one judgment of how criminal profilers should be judged and that was by the very people
who use them: police officers. Not all police officers were satisfied with all profiles, provided by all
profilers, all of the time. Positive comments were tempered by concerns and criticisms levelled at
Profiling including profiles. This article is important because it shows the different opinions on how
police officers feel on criminal profiling.

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Koppl, Roger, and Meghan Sacks. "The Criminal Justice System Creates Incentives For False
Convictions." Criminal Justice Ethics 32.2 (2013): 126. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 29 Oct. 2015.
Many people think that that criminal profiling has made many false convictions. The number of
false claimed convictions per year in the American criminal justice system should be considered very
high. About 1 million felony convictions every year even at a low rate of false conviction can make a high
number of false convictions by criminal profiling. The numbers of convictions could possibly be lower
without the need of criminal profiling. They try to believe that criminal justice professional discriminate
between the innocent and the guilty just based on what they think that person look like. Instead of trying
to stop criminal profiling they just try to make suggestions about how to improve the of criminal profiling
professionals system. This article is important because it explains how the criminal profiling system has
been judged in a different perspective but in a bad way.
Snook, Brent. "Criminal Profiling: Granfalloons and Gobbledygook." Skeptic (Altadena, CA) 2 (2008):
42. Academic OneFile. Web. 24 Sept. 2015.
Criminal profiling help really big when it comes down to determining what kind of killer it is.
Other law enforcements think that the only way criminal profilers can help is just to tell the detectives and
cops what kind of killer their dealing with. Meaning is the person really dangerous or not. Back in the
1980s, 72% of law enforcement said that criminal profilers helped with their cases, surprisingly. So many
people were surprised even criminal profilers because their help was always so debatable. By the 2000s
the percentage was raised even higher. Now criminal profiling by other law enforcements are actually
appreciated and it is a big part of the Criminal Profiling Professional System. This article is important
because it goes through a quick change on how other law enforcements felt in the past and how they feel
now on criminal profiling.