What exactly is Criminal Profiling? Well, in order to understand what criminal profiling is, someone must understand what a criminal profile is. “A criminal profile is a collection of inferences about the qualities of the person responsible for committing a crime or a series of crimes.” (Turvey, 2008, p. 43). The inferences Turvey is speaking of are based on evidence and common sense, or reasoning. Criminal Profiling is a Forensic Science, and like any Science, is concluded by theories and patterns, and more often than not, a crucial part to determining who a suspect could be when no eye witnesses are available. A criminal profiler will create a psychological profile of a suspect to aid Law Enforcement in the identification and location of the suspect by merely what they know about human behavior, motivation, and mental illness. (www.wcupa.edu.). A large number of criminals have been detained using criminal profiling.…