Forensic profiling

Forensic profiling is when a person looks at all the evidence from a crime (like fingerprints, DNA, where the crime happened, etc.) and tries to build a picture of who the criminal might be. It is like playing detective - the person doing the profiling looks at all the clues to find out who did it. They use this information to create a description of the likely suspect and then they can use that description to narrow down who the criminal might be.