Criminal profiling, also known as criminal investigative analysis, refers to the systematic study of an individual crime or similar series of crimes to identify the perpetrator of the crime. This technique determines the behavioral and personality characteristics of the offender and allows investigators to create their criminal profiles. Criminal profiling has a long history dating back to the early criminal research in the 1880s when crime scene pieces of evidence were used to make forecasts about British serial killer. The profilers are called on special crime investigations that require techniques to balance the competing interests of ensuring public safety and individual rights. Criminal personality profiling identifies and examines the …show more content…
It captivates me because of the many elements behind trying to determine why someone is committing certain crimes. Psychology has become a very important and popular subject today. It deals with many problems of everyday life. Psychology helps us to understand the behavior of people around us, to find out why they behave differently and what forces are responsible to make them so different from others. It tries to explain wide array of factors involved in what we human beings do. The principles explained by psychology give us a rational basis of understanding of what we and others do. Psychology has been defined in many ways. In ancient days people were analyzing the behavioral aspects on the basis of philosophy. They believed that there is a soul in every individual and this is responsible for all our activities. I could go on and on about this topic forever. I would love to be a criminal profiler when I am older. I will complete all the necessary tasks it needs to achieve my dream. This essay is going to give me a 100-test grade. As a matter of fact, 2 test grades. I don’t know what else to write about but this topic is very interesting. I really can’t wait to go to college and continue my career path. I hope I don’t get shot or anything in my career. I would like to be called detective Coggins. This is just so interesting and I can’t wait to do like 8 years of college and be in the police academy.