Criminal Profiling – An Important Investigative Tool

In my novel "Compulsion", Emily Stone's love interest Detective Rick Lopez uses a form of profiling called a "Threshold Assessment". He carefully weighs the evidence from the serial homicide crime scenes, criminal behavior patterns, and victimology to begin to put together a preliminary profile of the serial killer.

I've just recently become an associate member in the Criminology Section of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling. I'm intrigued by behavioral evidence analysis and it was the driving f