Introduction Criminal profiling is the process of analyzing the crime scene and finding out the perpetrator using the collected information. Though the profiling doesn’t give the name of the perpetrator, it helps to narrow down the suspects. The most important part of a criminal profile is Personality. Forensic Science (1997) states that personality is reflected by behavior and that is what profiling is all about. The details of the criminal profiler such as the crime scene state, the type of weapons used, and the words of the victim and other factors like geographic crime patterns and the offender lives. Criminal profiling is more helpful in crimes such as serial sexual homicides. This is because of the type of the crime and the greater deal of fear along with the higher publicity. The Process of Criminal Profile Generation Criminal Profile Stage This stage deals with the person type who have committed the crime and his behavior relating the crime. When the description of the person is generated, the strategy can be formulated for the investigation and the strategy can be used in finding out the person. This strategy requires basic understanding of an individual who responds to a variety of investigative efforts. The criminal profile includes the background information, physical and mental behavior of the accused, the habits, beliefs and values and the pre offense and post offense behavior. This stage has an important means of calculating the criminal profile. The profile should be constructed in such a way that it should fit in all the earlier construction of the crime along with the evidence and key decision processes. The investigation procedure should also develop recommendations in terms of the expected response patterns of the offender (John et al. 1986). Methods used in Criminal Profiling FBI has a behavioral Science Unit due to which the criminal profiling has expanded to a larger part. There are two procedures to create a criminal profile. First is the description used by the FBI and the second is the analysis on the behavioral evidence created by Brent Truvey in 1990s (John et al. 1986). Analysis of FBI’s Crime Scene This analysis has six steps which are as follows: Profiling Inputs Profiling inputs i.e. the information required to form a profile includes short description of the crime, crime scene and information about the crime area which includes weather, political and social conditions. Victim’s background information is also collected in the cases of homicide profiles. Any other information relating to the crime is also important for profiling process. The inputs also include an autopsy report and photographs. A report from medical examiner includes the time of death, weapon type used and description about wounds. Photographs (including autopsy & aerial) are also important in the process of profiling. The profiler has to gain knowledge about the background of the crime and evidences available. The data and photographs obtained can give the profiler a clear understanding about the risk attached to the victim. Decision Process Models Decision process involves organizing the inputs and arranging them such that we get meaningful outputs. Seven different