Unlocking the Mind of a Criminal: Offender Profiling Techniques Revealed

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Offender profiling Offender or criminal profiling is a practice of evaluating crime behaviours to predict the likely attributes of the offender. In the video, it is open that although most of the serious crime has an obvious suspect, some though serious like serial killing or multiple rapists do not have an obvious suspect (0:08-17). In cases of serious crimes that lack an obvious suspect, the police bring in a psychological profiler to conduct offender profiling and give recommendation on the most likely perpetrator of the noted crimes. According to the video, most of the criminal profilers use clues available at the crime scene to generate a criminal profile. What does this imply? The psychological profilers perform a thorough evaluation or examination of the crime scene to identify any notable psychological traits of the suspect. These psychological traits range fro