CRIMINAL PROFILING

Now that more and more youth mitaani and on the streets are turning to crime for escape from the bludgeoning effects of poverty, what measures are taken by the police to understand what makes a person a criminal?

We have all watched cool and interesting sera ( plural ya series, msee!!) such as CSI, Criminal Minds, Bones, but what does real criminal profiling involve?
Criminal profiling is built on the principles of  criminal behaviour, study of mental illness, and an integration of forensic sciences.It is more commonly known as behavioral profiling. So, what makes a criminal a criminal?

Cesaro Lombroso, one of the first criminalists, classified criminals into three major types:

1. Born Criminals: degenerate, primitive, lower evolutionary reversions in terms of physical characteritics lead a person to committing crime.
2. Insane criminals: those who suffered from mental and/or physical illnesses and deficiencies. The resulting state of mind eventually propels these individuals to crime.
3. Criminaloids: criminals whose mental and emotional makeup pre-disposed them to criminal behaviour, under certain conditions...(poverty?)

There is nothing magical about the criminal profiling methodology. People still think of it as more of an art than a science.  In the profiling, there are two methods:

• deductive reasoning, and
• inductive reasoning.

Both of these methods are time-tested and each relies on the other in order for the whole profile to be correct.