Investigations Criminal profiling is increasingly gaining attention from the academia and the showbiz sine the FBI first published details of its profiling principles. It has been taken up by movie makers in such films as X-Files and Silence of the Lambs. Nonetheless, beyond the pined pictures of the victim, which help to somehow to create sensation in these resources, have been few reliable criminal profiling classification designs. Since it started being used, the technique of criminal profiling has been described in several terms. For instance criminal personality profiling, criminal profiling, psychological profiling and even behavioral evidence profiling. Regardless though, criminal profiling as an investigative tool in policing is today entirely intuitive or hunch based and does not present the law enforcement agencies with a detailed fleshed out information about the behaviors of a suspected criminal. For instance, profiling accounts that have been published which details the methodology employed by the various individuals, have taken the form of journalistic articles and semi-autobiographical books rather than systematic academic work and are therefore difficult to evaluate from a scientific or accuracy point of view. In that regard therefore, one major weakness of the current profiling methods is that all the profiles emphasizes on the various psychological functions the murde…
