CRIMINAL PROFILING

Criminal Profiling

Criminal Profiling

This paper discusses whether criminal profiling should be used as a sole basis for arrest, or whether it is more appropriate to be considered as only one of several factors, or whether it should be considered at all. Informal lawless individual profiling has a long history. It was utilised as early as the 1880s, when two physicians, George Phillips and Thomas Bond, utilised misdeed view signs to make propositions about British successive murderer Jack the Ripper's personality. At the identical time, profiling has taken origin in the United States, where, until latest decades, profilers relied mostly on ...