by Negale Jackson

Created on: June 20, 2008

Criminal Profiling It Is So Good

Certainly, criminal profiling has been in existence for many centuries where if one look at the development of the first penitentiaries in America these institutions were based on criminal profiling against the have-nots. For those who came to America looking for opportunities but to the contrary could not find any financial stability to sustain their lifestyles they became the first criminalized community of career criminals. These wretched individuals only crimes in New England were that they were destitute and could not afford to take care of themselves. A persistent problem appeared for the aristocracies in this era. What social structures will be built for the poor? The answer was to criminal profile these new immigrants. So the rags to riches almost became a farce.

Firstly, when it come to the concept of criminal profiling better known according to criminologist as Criminal Investigative Analysis' connoted a class/economic origin in order to build resources around the rich and powerful from the inception of America. With this in mind, new immigrants legal status were only one notch from being consider slaves. What is the social definition of involuntary servitude?
The United States Constitution Article 13/Amendment states the following on social defining involuntary servitude into the euphemism as criminal profiling. Here is how the political leadership redesigned the servitude conception: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States" It became popular to built penitentiaries in the new colony to punish vagabonds, orphans, petty thefts, new freed slaves and the underprivileged who could not find any resources to take care of their families. For a long time, the social definition was concocted on the theory these individuals were immoral, deviance and deserve to be punished which was criminal profiling.

Secondly, to further support that criminal profiling had no connection to any racial preference but through violence protest from the Italians, Irish, Polish, and other European stock racial criminal profiling became the most prevalent public policy to practice through institutional practices. Here is how Trevor Gardner II described criminal profiling in "The Political Delinquent Crime, Deviance, and Resistance in Black America": "Popular conceptions of deviance often fall prey to very basic ideas of immorality,

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