Criminal Profiling
... Criminal profiling is a very reputed technique to solve crime in this turn of the millennium. What, actually, is profiling? In the following pages, I will tell you about criminal profiling, the types of criminals, and we will venture into the mind of a killer… “I see what the killer sees. ... ” --Frank Black Profiling is a way to build a psychological portrait of a person who committed a crime by examining all aspects of the crime scene. This psychological picture is very complete including sex, age, occupation, upbringing, marital status, home, type of car the criminal drive, etc. ... Not all cases, even if it is a rape or a murder, will use criminal profiling. ... Crimes involving missing children are also eligible for profiling. ... Profiling wasn’t taken seriously in the late seventies and people thought it was like witchcraft. ... It was in 1979 that the idea of profiling the criminals was made. ... In the eighties, only 50% of the FBI really approved profiling. ... ” --John Douglas Doing such insight into the criminal mind doesn’t make them becoming “monsters”? ... The disorganized is a criminal too mentally ill to plan his killings. ... He appears normal and everyone will not considered him as a criminal. ... Victimology narrows tremendously the criminal type.