Criminal profiling as a modern and effective technique for combating crime and a way to expand the competences of employees in law enforcement agencies and the justice system Cover Image

Profilowanie kryminalne jako nowoczesna i skuteczna technika zwalczania przestępczości i sposób poszerzenia kompetencji pracowników zatrudnionych w organach ścigania i w wymiarze sprawiedliwości
Criminal profiling as a modern and effective technique for combating crime and a way to expand the competences of employees in law enforcement agencies and the justice system

Author(s): Agnieszka Łozińska-Piekarska, Tomasz Dąbrowski
Subject(s): Education, Criminal Law, Labor relations, Criminology
Published by: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji
Keywords: profiler; forensics; crime; education;

Summary/Abstract: Criminal profiling has recently become increasingly important. It becomes an indispensable part of social awareness, mainly thanks to the fourth power, which very often uses the media nature of criminal cases. However, the reality regarding the effectiveness of profiling differs from the imagination of many members of Polish society, including students or university graduates starting their professional career. Criminal profiling still arouses numerous controversies, in particular in terms of its suitability for the needs of law enforcement or judicial authorities. The article aims to present the person of a criminal profiler on three levels – skills and qualifications necessary to prepare a criminal and victim profile, the real demand for criminal profilers on the labor market, as well as the controversy surrounding the usefulness of profiling. In the summary, postulates regarding the unification of forms of education of future profilers will be presented and the introduction of a statutory regulation covering criminal profiling itself.

  • Issue Year: 122/2023
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 123-138
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish