Criminal profiling or offender profiling is a sequence of investigative techniques utilized to establish characteristics of unknown criminal. Through criminal profiling, a profiler relates the information from the crime scene to known personality and behaviors attributes resultant from past crimes of other offenders who showed similar traits. The aim of doing this is to attempt to solve the crime and catch the criminal. The FBI has never demonstrated beyond reproach that this method is reliable. The fact that criminal profiling method utilizes empirical-based approach that is anchored on psychological principles to empirically examine the behavior of a criminal and the analysis of voluminous cases and crime information, implies that it is
