Criminal Profiling: Fact Or Fiction

This paper explores various journal articles that address the topic of whether or not criminal profiling is fact or fiction. Each of the authors these articles share the same view on the topic of criminal profiling and that is that it is fiction. The authors explain this through empirical evidence along with different studies conducted using “expert profilers” and ordinary people to prove there is no use for criminal profiling. The authors go on to prove that criminal profiling is merely guessing and hoping to get the profile right based off of the information that they have been given by eyewitnesses and the authorities. I will use the author’s research and journals to explain why I believe too that criminal profiling is fiction.