Interested in criminal profiling? Get all the information you need here

Interested in criminal profiling? Get all the information you need here: "Rather than criminal profiling, this part of the forensic psychology website could just as easily have been called psychological profiling, offender profiling or criminal personality profiling.

When you read about profiling in a forensic context you’ll see slightly different terms being employed, and more often that not this simply reflects the working background of the author. For instance, a psychologist is more likely to refer to psychological profiling, whereas a criminologist is more likely to use the term criminal profiling.

In order to think about and evaluate criminal profiling from a contemporary perspective you have to have some idea of the way in which it has evolved over the years. With this in mind, this first dedicated page will take a close look at the first widely documented use of profiling within a criminal investigation.

The importance of this landmark case cannot be underestimated, as it paved the way for the FBI’s highly influential work on criminal profiling. Work which has come to dominate our modern-day understanding of the topic."