Psychological criminal profiling.

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Are there enough black serial killers to make the phrase 'most serial killers are white males' untrue?

I don't know.  One site I found listed a couple dozen or so black serial killers (I didn't count them).  Are they disproportionately white?  Perhaps, but do the numbers justify drawing conclusion about a hypothetical serial killer's race?  I think not.

Which is what I said. I did not say they should racially profile. I said the opposite.

Yes, according to what I've read from experts, they are disproportionately white. That could have to do with socioeconomic factors more than it has to do with race. Who knows? I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with actually being white, but there are more white serial killers than black serial killers.

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Interestingly, I find a number of different definitions for the term at any given time, so it depends on that as well. In this list compiled of the percentage of serial killers in any given decade, I find it curious to note that the number of black serial killers has gone up as the definition has changed to mean any person who kills more than one person in separate events. For example, if I shoot someone tomorrow and then shoot someone a month from now, I'm a serial killer by that definition. Earlier on, the term meant something very different. Personally, I think the definition they use in this paper is far too lax. It would mean Aaron Hernandez is a serial killer. I think the average person makes a distinction between gang and serial killings. However, even with the shift in definition, more than half of serial killers are white.

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20...istics.pdf

ETA: The average IQ of a serial killer is 6 points less than average, if I'm reading that correctly. That's worth noting as well. Also, they said the lowest IQ for a serial killer was 54. Imagine being serial killed by someone that stupid? For some reason, being killed by an evil drooling moron throws me off more.