Criminal Profiling and Crime Analysis

Abstract\nA study of the member of wrongdoer compose reveals various stages winding in the generation of a profile as healthful as the way in which the profile is incorporated in the investigation of the concerned legality enforcement agency. This paper traces the development of the process from the time when offender profiling first started being apply by law enforcement agencies and how it evolved into the black-tie and specialized way of investigation that it has become now. Further, the validity and public-service corporation of offender profiling has been questioned in recent times. The author has seek to analyze the reliableness of a profile in the linguistic context of these contentions and the paper recommends measures that could improve reliability of the profile and allow for a more efficient and unbiassed investigation.\n\nKey Words: offender Profiling, Profiling Approach, Profiling surgical process\n\nIntroduction\nInitially offender profiles were created info rmally, in the sense that they were found more on intuition, dwell and reasoning than on psychological science or criminology. Informal criminal profiling has a pine history. It was used as early on as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and doubting Thomas Bond, used crime mise en scene clues to make predictions about British serial murderer tinkers damn the Rippers personality. In 1974, the FBI formed its behavioral intelligence Unit to look into serial rape and homicide cases. From 1976 to 1979, some(prenominal) FBI agents actual 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 organised/disorganized dichotomy into a continuum and developing other assortment schemes.\nOffender profiling is grounded in the belief that it is possible to bailiwick out the characteristics of an\noffender by examining the characteristic s of their offences. Profiling cannot tell jurisprudence exactly who committed an offence, only if it ...