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This essay attempts to explore the question of whether offender profiling offers an insight to certain types of criminal behaviour. The term offender profiling is relatively modern and for many, conjures up images of the television series 'Cracker' or Jodie Foster's portrayal of an F.B.I. agent in 'Silence of the lambs.' To the general public it is a term connected to dramatic cases and yields a certain belief that profilers have a connection to the minds of the criminal. In real terms, profilers such as the British psychologist David Canter, are far more likely to admit that it is a far from glamorous pursuit, consisting of many hours looking through, sometimes macabre, evidence and scene of crime photographs. Only after careful examination does the profiler offer a view and even then it is a list of probabilities as opposed to hard facts. A further myth is that law enforcement agencies...

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