Criminal Profiler

Fr Dougal Mcguire wrote: »

Was watching television tonight and the show had a criminal profiler on it profiling the suspected killer.

does ireland have criminal profilers or did they qualify in other countries.

how does somebody go about becoming a criminal profiler in ireland, what courses would you have to do??

I listened to a radio documentary recently about the history of criminal profiling - if I can track down a link I'll post it here.

I'm fairly certain there's no standard career track and if profilers are ever employed by the gardai then it would be on an ad-hoc they would be otherwise employed in a forensic/clinical psychology background and would be many years qualified.

tbh - criminal profiling is more of a handy dramatic device for writers than a career