Profiling Cybercriminals
Electronic or digital forensics acknowledges the need to profile cybercriminals. As early as the 19th century, profiling has been used by criminal investigators as an investigative aid. Criminal profiling can either be done in an inductive way where behavioral patterns and personality traits of offenders are generalized from an existing database of offenders or deductively where specific evidences from existing cases are analyzed to be able to arrive at a behavioral profile applicable to a specific case. However, no matter what method of profiling is used, profiling alone seldom identifies the criminal, which is the main objective of criminal investigations. The ...
