What Criminal Profiling Tells Us About Ourselves
What Criminal Profiling Tells Us About Ourselves  
Podcast: All Of It
Published On: Tue Oct 28 2025
Description: Criminal profiling is one of the most famous tools in our crime-fighting arsenal, and probably our least understood. In her new book, The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling author Rachel Corbett writes about how it got its start in Victorian England, the first attempts by profilers to codify psychological patterns, and what profiling reveals, and what it obscures.