Criminal Profiling Future In Personality Psychology

Criminal Profiling Future in Personality Psychology
• Issue: Criminal profiling typically tends to fall under the field of criminal justice. However, much of the work pertaining to criminal profiling is related to personality psychology.
• Position: In my opinion, I feel like criminal profiling should be considered a science rather than an art, because most work of the pertaining to profiling requires psychological insight. Once criminal profiling becomes a form of science, I then think that it should become a subdiscipline of personality psychology.
• Evidence/Support: The emergence of criminal profiling and personality psychology began when law enforcers started working with mental health professionals to solve crimes pertaining to sexual