
This book explains how practitioners can benefit from the use of empirically tested and validated profiles in their unsolved investigations, and how the use, continued research, and evaluation of Evidence-Based Offender Profiling can advance the quality, prestige, and utility...

Offender profiling is an investigative tool used to narrow down the range of potential suspects for a crime by predicting the personality, behavioral, and demographic characteristics that an offender is likely to possess, based upon information collected at the crime scene...