A PACE: Practical Guide to Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

PREFACE What is criminal profiling? ItБЂ™s a combination of analyzing the physical and behavioral evidence, reconstructing a crime from the beginning to the end, and coming up with the most scientific determination possible with the information available. A lot of it is common sense-or at least it seems that way after the crime is solved. But coming up with the right answer requires more than instinct or good guessing; it requires examining the scene and the evidence scientifically, unemotionally, and without any biases. It is a matter of applied logic that comes from a combination of innate skill, training and education, and years of practice. Learning never ends: learning from doing, learning from others, even learning from oneБЂ™s own mistakes. Becoming a criminal profiler is a process, not a moment in time. Study, experience, and practice allow a criminal profiler to grow into a Sherlock Holmes of the modern day, improving oneБЂ™s skill, case by case, murder by murder. Whether one trains through the FBI, a police department, college, or on oneБЂ™s own, the learning process is a journey ...»