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Criminal Behavior Analysis

The process known as profiling is a method of investigation performed primarily by special agents in the FBI's behavior analysis unit.

Profilers are called in by local law enforcement when they have a violent crime without any leads.

No forensic evidence and no suspects.

FBI profilers will employ years of education and experience to analyze the crime scene in an attempt to determine the behavior of the offender or unsub unidentified subject.

The concept, while it may seem complex, really is quite the opposite.

As students of human behavior, the special agents move past the what of the crime scenes and focus more on the why.

The process tries to figure out why the particular victim or victims were chosen by the offender or offender.

Why the offender chose that particular time and place for the attack?

And lastly, why they behave the way that they did during the commission of the offender and in the immediate moments after.

This information is then used to predict pre and post-offense behaviors of the offender or offender.

And lastly, the analysis is used in narrow down a suspect pool.

Profilers believe that the analysis of behavior at a crime scene often times will have the effect of holding a mirror up to the offender or offender.

Opposers of the profiling approach will say that criminal behavior analysis is nothing more than reading tea leaves.

Its focus pocus mumbo jumbo and has no place in criminal investigations.

Profiles are not always accurate and some believe that they should never be used.

So before I begin my behavior analysis of the forgotten West Memphis 3 crime scene, I want to talk for a minute about my own personal views on profiling.

To begin with, it's important for me to point out that I myself am not a profiler. I have no formal training in the field at all.

Any amount of skill that I possess in this realm of investigation is from a few years of on-the-job training in a lot of advice and direction from retired FBI profiler Jim Clemente.

I would rate my personal abilities as a criminal behavior analyst as just slightly above novice.

The reason that I point that out is to be crystal clear about the fact that the analysis that I am about to provide is not fact and should not be taken as such.

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