Forensic profiling

Forensic profiling is the study of trace evidence by using scientific and analytical methods in order to create and find information that could help law enforcement in any kind of investigations. This informations can help with the process of identifying suspects and potentially convict them in judicial proceedings.

The term "forensic" in this context refers to information that can be used as evidence in a court room (Geradts & Sommer 2006, p. 10). The traces that are analyzed originate from criminal or legal activities. The traces that are analyzed are not just helpful in the courtroom, but they also can help in other areas such as investigation, intelligence, surveillance and risk analysis.

Many may think that forensic profiling is the same thing as offender profiling, but it is different in a way where forensic profiling is the identification of correlations in data sets that can then distinguish individuals. Offender profiling is the psychological characteristics of the potential suspects that can primarily focus on.

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