Introduction Offender profiling is weak investigation technique in criminal investigation. Offender profiling is “an educated attempt to provide investigative agencies with specific information as to the type of individual who committed the crime.” (Geberth, 1996, p.710). It leads to assumptions about profiling which are the crime scene reflects the personality, the methods remain similar, the signature remains the same, the personality will not change. And it can use to predict the victim and describe the offender. However, there are some limitation to use offender profiling in criminal investigation. In this essay, it will mention the limitation, advantage of the offender profiling, also it will mention the traditional investigation. Limitation …show more content…
It is always used to an analyze the cases to other people. . In fact, there are less successful case to use offender profiling solve the case in the world. However, the criminal may have different tricky ways to offend a crime, and may be these way is not educated before. If there is this situation, offender profiling will not be useful. And also, all of the result of offender profiling is just an assumption. If the crimiologists have a wrong assumptions, the direction of investigation will be wrong too, so that it may not find the criminal. For example, there are serval cases, the same cue is the victims also had a trace which is they were all sroked the hair. Therefore, the crimiologist deduce that the criminal have a dog since he like to sroke the hair of …show more content…
That means the criminal should use same ways to offend crime of have same cue in the cases, so that can use the criminal profiling. It means there is a condition for criminal profiling, it is the cases must have consistency. However, human is a complex biological. Although people may be routine in daily life, they may have different reactions when they face different situations. Therefore, the criminal may have a little different place in different cases even though it is serial killings. Advantage Although there are same limitation for criminal profiling, there are also advantage of it. First, it may protect the victim. Criminal profiling can analyze the feature of the criminal, and it also can anaylze the feature of victim. Therefore, it can analyze the feature of victim and find out who may be the next victim, so that the police can protect this person to prevent him or her to become next victim. Second, it provides investigative information. If the criminologists have a right assumptions for the case. It can let the police investigate the case faster. It may prevent a future crime may take place. In the long run, criminal profiling may decrease the victims of some crime like serial