Criminal Profiling: the reality behind the myth

U. B. Roychowdhury; S. Basak; B. Sukul; M. Pal

Criminal Profiling: the reality behind the myth

U. B. Roychowdhury ¹, S. Basak ², B. Sukul ³, M. Pal ⁴

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, 244, AJC Bose Road, Kolkata- 700 020, India
2 Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India
3 Dept. of Forensic and State Medicine, N.R.S. Medical College, Kolkata, India
4 Dept. of Pathology, Midnapore Medical College, Paschim Mediuipur, West Bengal, India

In contemporary criminology, with the advent of Criminal Profiling, criminal investigative procedure has changed dramatically. Various theories and methodologies of criminal profiling have been proposed e.g., FBI's Crime Scene Analysis, Brent Turve^s Behavioral Evidence Analysis, Canter's Profiling Technique etc. It is certain that in near fiiture, Criminal Profiling will play a decisive role in modem criminal investigation.