Case Study
Read the following criminal profile and answer the questions below.
The behavior at this crime scene indicates that the offender is a more mature male. We would expect him to be in his late 20s or early 30s at least. It should be noted that we mean the offender's emotional age, not necessarily his chronological age. Statistically speaking, absent any forensic or eyewitness evidence to the contrary, we believe the offender to be a white male. Most interpersonal violence is intra-racial. No suspect should be eliminated based on age or race alone. The FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 1998 the most recent edition) indicates for white female victims of homicide, white males were the offenders in 86% of the cases.
-What type of reasoning is evident in this profile?
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