Citation

Muller DA. Homicide Stud. 2000; 4(3): 234-264.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1088767900004003003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Criminal profiling is designed to generate information on a perpetrator of a crime, usually a serial offender, through an analysis of the crime scene left by the perpetrator. The two main approaches to criminal profiling, crime scene analysis and investigative psychology, are examined for the presence of a paradigm and the possibility of falsifiability to determine whether they can be considered as science.