Validity, Benefits, and Liabilities of Criminal Profiling

Validity, Benefits, and Liabilities of Criminal Profiling

Introduction

Criminal Profiling is an effective tool, which the law enforcement agencies has been using since the nineteenth century, for combating crime. The practice gained popularity after drawing much attention from the media, especially in the television industry. Criminal Profiling, which is also known as offender profiling, is a specialty associated with the field of investigation.

Criminal investigators need to determine the physical and psychological traits of offenders and the criminal profiling is the tool used to achieve this goal. This paper attempts to discuss the different aspect of criminal ...