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How would I word a thesis asking me to question the accuracy and reliability?

For example:

The use of 'offender profiles' by the police has received a lot of media attention, but are they accurate and reliable? Discuss in your answer the different methods of profiling and, also, how the information generated as part of a profile is actually used by the police.

Thank you so much!

Reply 1

bones-mccoy

After explaining and describing the different ways of profiling, you'd then need to criticially evaluate, which is where discussing the validity and reliability of the methods would be appropriate. We had a guy who worked as a Behavioural Investigative Advisor for the National Crime Agency come in and do a guest lecture, he's someone the police contact if a serious crime occurs (i.e rape, murder) and there's no obvious evidence or indication of who may have committed the offence. He asses crime scenes, generates hypotheses, links cases and uses matrices to discount potential known suspects. It's probably the closest thing we have in the UK to the traditional profiling you see in the FBI so may be worth a Google.