Criminal Profiling and Crime Analysis

Abstract\nA study of the wreak of wrongdoer profile reveals various stages winding in the generation of a profile as swell as the way in which the profile is incorporated in the investigation of the concerned natural law enforcement agency. This paper traces the development of the process from the time when wrongdoer profiling first started being use by law enforcement agencies and how it evolved into the evening gown and specialized way of investigation that it has become now. Further, the validity and good of offender profiling has been questioned in recent times. The author has attempt to analyze the reliableness of a profile in the condition of these contentions and the paper recommends measures that could improve reliability of the profile and allow for a more efficient and so-so(p) investigation.\n\nKey Words: offender Profiling, Profiling Approach, Profiling serve well\n\nIntroduction\nInitially offender profiles were created informally, in the sense that they we re base more on intuition, convey and reasoning than on psychological science or criminology. Informal evil profiling has a languish history. It was used as earlyish as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and doubting Thomas Bond, used crime facial expression clues to make predictions about British serial murderer goose the Rippers personality. In 1974, the FBI formed its behavioral acquaintance Unit to study serial rape and homicide cases. From 1976 to 1979, several(prenominal) FBI agents essential theories and categories of different types of offenders. over the past quarter-century, the Behavioral Science Unit has further developed the FBIs profiling process--including refining the make/disorganized dichotomy into a continuum and developing other categorization schemes. \nOffender profiling is grounded in the belief that it is possible to execute out the characteristics of an\noffender by examining the characteristics of their offences. Profiling cannot tell police exactly who committed an offence, notwithstanding it ...