Criminal Profiling and Crime Analysis

Abstract\nA study of the go of wrongdoer write reveals various stages involved in the generation of a profile as n archaeozoic as the way in which the profile is incorporated in the investigation of the concerned truth enforcement agency. This paper traces the development of the process from the time when offender profiling first started being utilised by law enforcement agencies and how it evolved into the starchy and specialized way of investigation that it has become now. Further, the validity and emolument of offender profiling has been questioned in recent times. The author has seek to analyze the dependability 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 unbiassed investigation.\n\nKey Words: wrongdoer Profiling, Profiling Approach, Profiling assist\n\nIntroduction\nInitially offender profiles were created informally, in the sense that they were establish more on intuition, familiarity and reasoning than on psychology or criminology. Informal malefactor profiling has a retentive history. It was used as early as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and doubting Thomas Bond, used crime aspect clues to make predictions about British serial murderer jacks the Rippers personality. In 1974, the FBI formed its behavioral cognizance Unit to check up on serial rape and homicide cases. From 1976 to 1979, several(prenominal) FBI agents genuine 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 nonionised/disorganized dichotomy into a continuum and developing other salmagundi schemes. \nOffender profiling is grounded in the belief that it is possible to drub out the characteristics of an\noffender by examining the characteristics of their offences. Profiling cannot tell law of nature exactly who committed an offence, but it ...