Profiling as a Method of Preventing Unlawful Actions

Abstract

The article is about profiling as a preventing technology. Profiling is a new technology that help us analyze and predict people’s behavior focusing on the verbal and non-verbal features and other personal characteristics. Now profiling is popular in foreign countries, but in Ukraine it only starts to develop. Law enforcement agencies of foreign countries use profiling in two aspects: for searching and detention criminals who commit any violent crime, and for preventing the commission of crimes. Author dwells on the necessity of visual diagnostics in the profiler’s activity. The article provides information about verbal and non-verbal means of communication that are necessary for profiler. Non-verbal means of communication are almost not controlled by a person and are also perceived without control. In order to prevent unlawful intentions, particular attention should be paid to the definition of such negative psycho-emotional states and behavioral complexes as stress, aggression, fear, anxiety, mendacity, and the state of a hypnotic trance. Sometimes people who are mentally abnormal, in a state of alcohol or narcotic intoxication, in border states, commit unlawful actions. That’s why, it is necessary to analyze all characteristics in complex to prevent unlawful intentions, Author focuses on the problem of ethnical profiling in Ukraine and foreign countries. The position of ethnical profiling is based on the assumption that there is a connection between ethnic origin and the tendency towards unlawful behavior. Ethnic profiling is a form of racial discrimination, and therefore prohibited in many countries. However, law enforcement agencies use ethnic profiling as a method of combating terrorism and for preventing illegal migration. This is done by checking the documents and conducting searches in the premises of suspicious persons from other race. To summarize the author writes that profiling can be both positive and negative and it is necessary to develop profiling in Ukraine.