Profiling aims to identify the major personality and behavioural characteristics of offenders from their interactions in the crime. The discipline has undergone numerous changes and advances since its first modern use by the psychological/psychiatric community. The current paper reviews the different approaches to criminal profiling, exploring the reasoning and justification utilised across profiling practices. Profiling aims to assist criminal investigators; however, the variance in profiling approaches has contributed to inconsistency across the field, bringing the utility of profiling into question. To address the current areas of practice deficit in criminal profiling, a framework is proposed to promote integrated practice. The CRIME approach provides a framework (consisting of crime scene evaluations, relevancy of research, investigative or clinical opinions, methods of investigation, and evaluation) to promote structure and uniformity in profile development, aiming to assist in the reliability of the practice by providing an integrative framework for developing profiles.

剖析旨在从犯罪者在犯罪中的互动中识别其主要人格和行为特征。自从心理学/精神病学界首次将其现代应用以来，该学科经历了许多变化和进步。本篇论文回顾了犯罪概况分析的不同方法，探讨了在概况分析实践中使用的推理和理由。剖析旨在协助刑事调查人员；但是，分析方法的差异导致整个领域的不一致，使分析的实用性受到质疑。为了解决当前在犯罪特征方面的实践不足的问题，提出了一个框架来促进综合实践。CRIME方法提供了一个框架（包括犯罪现场评估，研究的相关性，