For much of the twentieth century, criminal profiling in the United States was closely associated with violent offenses—serial homicide, terrorism, and extreme behavioral threats.

A criminalist holds a rape kit at the LAPD’s crime lab at the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center in Los Angeles. Photo: Getty Images This is an excerpt from The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A ...

Universities play a central role in shaping behavioral science through research training, institutional recognition, and ...

Laura Richards, a former criminal behavioral analyst and dedicated advocate for domestic violence victims, presents a Free Virtual Masterclass on Criminal Behavioral Analysis: Profiling Behavior & ...

Not everyone believes in the FBI criminal profiling process that has been popularly depicted in the hit Netflix series Mindhunter. For several decades now, clinical and forensic psychologists have ...

A cluster of recent research papers describes large language model systems that can identify the real people behind pseudonymous online accounts, not one at a time, but across entire platforms. The ...

The state of the art in terrorist explosives isn't the bomb hidden in a shoe. It's not peroxide-based liquid explosives spirited onboard aircraft in containers of 3 fluid ounces. And it's not ...

During the early 1970s, a team of FBI special agents, Howard Teten and Patrick Mullany, devised a course for law enforcement that applied research from abnormal psychology to crime scenes. This course ...

From January 1996 to February 1997, an unknown man was raping and killing women on the streets of Raleigh. The pattern was lifeless bodies left out or “displayed” after being sexually assaulted and ...