Criminal Profiling and Crime Analysis

Abstract\nA study of the bidding of offender write reveals various stages winding in the generation of a profile as strong as the way in which the profile is incorporated in the investigation of the concerned law of nature enforcement agency. This paper traces the development of the process from the time when offender profiling first started being utilize by law enforcement agencies and how it evolved into the ball and specialized way of investigation that it has become now. Further, the validity and usefulness of offender profiling has been questioned in recent times. The author has attempt to analyze the dependableness 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 neutral investigation.\n\nKey Words: wrongdoer Profiling, Profiling Approach, Profiling function\n\nIntroduction\nInitially offender profiles were created informally, in the sense t hat they were establish more on intuition, accept and reasoning than on psychological science or criminology. Informal venomous profiling has a wide history. It was used as archean as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and doubting Thomas Bond, used crime moving-picture show clues to make predictions about British serial murderer seafarer the Rippers personality. In 1974, the FBI formed its behavioral attainment Unit to investigate serial rape and homicide cases. From 1976 to 1979, some(prenominal) FBI agents substantial theories and categories of different types of offenders. all over the past quarter-century, the Behavioral Science Unit has further developed the FBIs profiling process--including refining the organized/disorganized dichotomy into a continuum and developing other miscellany schemes.\nOffender profiling is grounded in the belief that it is possible to break down out the characteristics of an\noffender by examining the characteristics of th eir offences. Profiling cannot tell natural law exactly who committed an offence, simply it ...