Cross-Racial Serial Predators / woc victims
What do you make of Criminal Minds's repeated assertions that the serial killer in question have to be in the same race as that of his(/her) victims, to the point of completely ignoring other possibilities, like in "Fear and Loathing"? I haven't seen all the episodes yet (is there one or more that featured a cross racial serial sex killer?)
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On the flip side it is also true that killers tend to kill within their own race. I took a Crime and Society class this past quarter where we discussed this issue and the stats that were given were that the majority of the time whites kill whites, blacks kill blacks, etc etc etc. Do they kill other races? Absolutely but the majority of the time it happens within a specific race.
As far as a cross racial killer in Season One there was an episode entitled "The Fox" and he was a white male and a family inhalator. One of the families he killed was a black family with a white stepfather. Also in Season 6 there was an episode entitled "Big Sea" and there were many different races and genders within the pile of bones they found. I know there is at least one more with a sexual sadist that crossed racial boundaries but I don't recall which one it was.
So in conclusion yes, I think they tend to stick to serial killers targeting within their own race but they do not completely ignore it all together.
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1. quite a few cases I came across feature white serial killers with minority victims
2. in colonial studies, sexual abuse was covered as a part of colonial abuse, that's cross racial sexual predation
On the male versus female victims of violence thing, that's another need more stats but what stats do we have to work with here? Men are more likely than women to be murdered, but what about violence where there was no body? Such as sexual assault - which tend to not be taken seriously until there was a body.
I have to say I was surprised by the unsub of "Fear and Loathing", I thought they were setting up the BAU to be wrong about race, the way they have been wrong about gender before. Especially since choir girl could be a racial fetishization trope, or the very least, objectification. I remember a snippet with an ethnically African female reporter who said she had great difficulty in getting the make-up people to give her a subtle professional look her white female colleagues have, as oppose to something that makes her look like a chorus girl.
...and then we have IRL's Profiler Profiled: Penn State:
blackvoicenews.com/commentary/more-commentary/47112-penn-state-how-many-of-the-victims-were-black.html
I'm saying that, I've seen CM address exploitation or disparity on a social scale by covering unsub who does it on a criminal scale...
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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime." - Maximilien Robespierre
Jane Gould exploited psychologically fragile woman to make herself feel powerful.
Charles Holcombe exploited people who lived or worked on the streets to satisfy his sadism.
...and then there was "25 to Life"...I dunno how I feel about the execution, but I applaud them for trying.
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