Forensics

The author and forensic scientist Brent  E. Turvey defines a Profile as : " a collection  of inferences about the qualities and chara-  cteristics of an individual, or individuals  responsible for the commission of a crime,  or series of crimes."  In recent decades, since the film Silence of  The Lambs became a box office success, and  in turn spawned many other films, and t.v.  shows about the practice of Criminal Profil-  ing, society has become fascinated by this  Investigative Procedure, And many methods  have been developed by various so-called  experts in the field. (With the F.B.I.'s meth-  od which has since been re-dubbed criminal  investigative analysis being by far the most  popular, and used method in spite recent s-  crutiny by forensic scientists such as Turvey,  Petherick, Brown, and other proponents of  the rival method of Behavioral Evidence A-  nalysis. Or B.E.A. for short.)  But , rivalries aside. HOW effective is profi-  ling from an investigative stan