Profiling and Human Behaviour

What gets me the most about criminal profiling, is that fact that even in the most dysfunctional and deviant of behavior, their is sameness. This fact astounds me, while at the same time leaving me with a profound sense of sadness.

It also astounds me that even as there are some who suffer years of emotional abuse and turn into killers, there are some people who have gone through hell and back, yet remain relatively untouched by it. I say relatively untouched, for even the survivor can never be completely free of what has happened to us. Even if years of abuse may not show itself in concrete ways, such as the development of psychopathology, it still helps define us and shape who we are, just as each and every experience we encounter does so.