Define criminal profiling in general terms and provide four main goals of criminal profiling.

•   Criminal profiling is a method by which one attempts to identify personality, behavioural, and/or demographic characteristics of an offender on the basis of the characteristics of the crimes he or she has committed.
•   Goals of criminal profiling:
a.   To flush out an offender
b.   To determine whether a threatening note should be taken seriously
c.   To provide advice on how to best interrogate a suspect
d.   To provide prosecutors with strategies that will help them “break down” the suspect/defendant in cross-examination