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Offender, or psychological, profiling is a common theme in dramatic fiction. However, is offender profiling valuable to law enforcement in the real world?
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Offender, or psychological, profiling is a common theme in dramatic fiction. However, is offender profiling valuable to law enforcement in the real world? There are a number of approaches to profiling crime and criminals. Which (if any) has the most to offer? For what sort of crimes is it most useful? How can profiling develop and who is best equipped to construct profiles? Offender profiling has been variously regarded as 'psychological' profiling, 'criminal' profiling or as an of extension personality profiling. The main initial problem when dealing with the subject area of offender profiling is related to drawing boundaries around what constitutes an actual offender profile, an offender profiler, and their respective relationship with the practical application to criminal investigation. Let us look at a few attempts to concisely define the area of offender/criminal profiling: "...The behaviour exhibited in a crime, or series of crimes, is studied and inferences...
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