Philosophy Of Offender Profiling

Offender profiling is used more often than not. Offender profiling can be defined as characterizing an offender by examining the characteristics of their offences. Profiling in general is the process in which we use the available information given about a crime, a crime scene, and or a victim in order to create a profile of the unknown offender. Of course, offender profiling cannot tell law enforcement who exactly committed such offence. It can potentially help us make predictions about the characteristics the offender is most likely to possess. Offender profiling can help police target their investigation in a more effective approach. Offender profiling is also known as criminal profiling and psychological profiling. Basically the overall purpose of offender profiling is to …show more content…
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