Criminal Profiling and Crime Analysis

Abstract\nA study of the make for of wrongdoer profile reveals various stages convolute in the generation of a profile as easily 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 utilise by law enforcement agencies and how it evolved into the pro forma and specialized way of investigation that it has become now. Further, the validity and avail of offender profiling has been questioned in recent times. The author has try to analyze the reliability of a profile in the place setting 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: offender Profiling, Profiling Approach, Profiling bidding\n\nIntroduction\nInitially offender profiles were created informally, in the sense that the y were base more on intuition, acquire and reasoning than on psychology or criminology. Informal roughshod profiling has a immense history. It was used as primordial as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and doubting Thomas Bond, used crime face clues to make predictions about British serial murderer twat the Rippers personality. In 1974, the FBI formed its behavioral light Unit to canvas serial rape and homicide cases. From 1976 to 1979, some(prenominal) FBI agents create theories and categories of different types of offenders. oer the past quarter-century, the Behavioral Science Unit has further developed the FBIs profiling process--including refining the create/disorganized dichotomy into a continuum and developing other categorization schemes.\nOffender profiling is grounded in the belief that it is possible to proceed out the characteristics of an\noffender by examining the characteristics of their offences. Profiling cannot tell jurisprudence exac tly who committed an offence, further it ...