For much of the twentieth century, criminal profiling in the United States was closely associated with violent offenses—serial homicide, terrorism, and extreme behavioral threats.

A criminalist holds a rape kit at the LAPD’s crime lab at the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images This is an excerpt from The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A ...

To show that they are not soft on white-collar crime, the Feds have begun using the kinds of behavioral profiling techniques that tend to be reserved for violent criminals like serial killers, says ...

Laura Richards, a former criminal behavioral analyst and dedicated advocate for domestic violence victims, presents a Free Virtual Masterclass on Criminal Behavioral Analysis: Profiling Behavior & ...

Not everyone believes in the FBI criminal profiling process that has been popularly depicted in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. For several decades now, clinical and forensic psychologists have ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal probe of a Transportation Security Administration program to screen suspicious behavior of passengers at airports suggests the effort, which has cost almost $1 billion ...

Before the FBI began to develop its program for behavioral profiling in the 1970s, others involved in law enforcement had performed a similar psychological analysis of crime scenes. Some influenced ...