Uses and users of Profiling

Profiling is usually used for crimes that posses’ dark and inhumane acts to the victims. Serial killers are usually the top priorities of profilers and serial killer types of offender; to name a few: angel of death killers, sexual sadist, and bombers. But profiling can also be used in a normal killer or even a petty theft. The main goal of profiling is to narrow down a list of suspects from high amount to the least possible numbers of suspect. The main users of profiling are the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The FBI has a unit specifically used for serial killers this unit is called behavioral analysis unit or simply BAU. These profilers in the FBI use this technique for crimes against children, adults, communicated threats, corruption, bombing and arson, and sexual crimes.