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Criminal Profiling and Forensic Psychology There are some crimes that capture the public imagination. We read in the newspapers of particularly horrific murders, rapes and abductions and gasp "Who could possibly do this?" Our sensibilities are further outraged when the victim is a child. Public revulsion and fears are easily whipped to fever pitch when we are confronted with atrocities that can only have been committed by monstrous criminal deviants. Since the emergence of the sociological disciplines, including psychology and psychiatry, there have been many attempts to classify the criminal type through explanations of genetics, social influences and other arenas of behaviorism versus determinism. One of the more credible developments in this quest to discover and predict criminality is the emergence of criminal profiling. Yefsky (1993 p63) describes it as the application of forensics and psychology to the investigation of violent criminal behaviour. Popularly, it is often regarded as a new fangled way...

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