Episode 1700
What Criminal Profiling Tells Us About Ourselves
October 28, 202526m 7s
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Show Notes
Criminal profiling is one of the most famous tools in our crime-fighting arsenal, and probably our least understood. In her new book, The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling author Rachel Corbett writes about how it got its start in Victorian England, the first attempts by profilers to codify psychological patterns, and what profiling reveals, and what it obscures.
Topics
criminology_historymoral_paniclaw_enforcement_historylifepsychological_profilingcultural_fearhistoryforensic_scienceinvestigative_methodsvictorian_crimecrimecrime_writingserial_killer_studies