Offender Profiling
Offender profiling is the inferring of an offender’s characteristics from his or her crime scene behaviour. For example, a profiler might try to infer a criminal’s age, gender or employment history from the way he or she has behaved during a crime. People who is the criminal can to be from of are chidren, younger, adult or the erderly.
Offender profiling is typically used with crimes, include:
- Where the offender’s identity is unknown and with serious types of crime, such as murder or rape.
- They likely to work on crime series, which are collections of crimes that are thought to have been committed by the same offender.