(June 6, 2017 at 7:17 pm)Mr.Obvious Wrote: And then on page ten, it says:
Quote:As can be seen in this table, the commonly cited profile of a serial killer in the U.S. being a white, male, in his mid twenties is not accurate.
According to the table, most seem to be male. But only 52.5% seem to be white. In a country with 60% whites, that is not disproportionate. And definitely not in exhuberant fashion. If anything, it's less than we'd expect. Of course, it could still be there are relatively 60% or higher white serial killers in the grander serial killer population. But that they are more apt at getting away with it because they, on average, have more means to (as whites in America are relatively less poor and might very well be concidered less as possible killers through bias or there might be other things at play.) Or maybe not. Dark numbers are hard to work with.
So on the whole, I don't think that source builds your case. (Edit: ) Also because of the too vague definition. I don't think the Numbers comparing serial Killers and coming up with relatively less in the White subgroup are even accurately comparing 'serial killers'.
(Edit: I found an old source saying 61% in America were whites. But it turns out, another source maybe with a different definition, says it's up to 77% I don't know the exact number, though they seem to be the majority.)
If you look at what I was citing, you'll see that the proportion of white to black serial killers has changed in recent decades. Several decades ago, it was something like 70+% were white. I posited that this is because the FBI's current definition has not always been in use. The man who coined the term meant it to describe people who got some sort of sexual pleasure out of killing, the cooling off period, etc. I cited this study specifically because I thought it called into question all of the things we've been discussing, not because I thought it built a solid case for anything.
Let's take South Africa for example, about 1 in 10 people are white in South Africa. Yet, most of their serial killers are white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_se...uth_Africa
I've also realized that here we have the unusual problem of sorting out whether Hispanics who identify as white are counted as white or Hispanic in these studies. It's all quite convoluted. Still, I think we all concede the point that racial profiling is problematic. I simply personally think you're more likely to be looking for a white dude if you're looking for a serial killer, depending of course on the M.O., which can often point to a woman.
