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Overview
When involved in conflict problems it is essential to identify who you have the problem with and what characteristics they portray.
Profiling is an important tool in assessing stakeholders and this is addressed in an evaluation of a public protest that involved different Anarchist groups and the Police.
F.2. Reading (Look at this before doing the tasks). The Tasks and Answer Key/Pointers/Sources are in Theme H in the drop-down menu at the top of this page.
Bertillon, Alphonse A. Bertillon, Instructions Signaletiques Album; Melun: Imprimerie Administrative, 1893.
Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ye97hhkk
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Think About:
“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die” – Albert Camus
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own” – Soren Kierkegaard
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism” – Norman Vincent Peale
“M.O. may change over time as an offender fine tunes their process. But the fundamental signature always stays the same” – Victoria Selman
“Profiling is a means for telling whom you have to worry about” – Angelo. M. Codevilla
Materials Updates/News:
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Korhonen, K. (2020). Politics of fire: the commemorative torch rally 612 of the Finnish radical right. European Politics and Society 21(3): 307-322.
Yle. 8.12.2023. Complaints to parliamentary ombudsman over police use of force at Helsinki demo (and also in 2024).
Always interesting to see Finnish police deployed with guns and militaristic regalia. This is understandable given the potential community safety risks. But when the police start to take on a political standpoint then that really should be raising questions, when this has happened in history it has not ended well...
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