2023 Abstract: For a long time, people have demonstrated a natural tendency to analyze and assess fellow humans as well as animals, objects, and similar entities, even in everyday scenarios. However, it is a little bit strange that criminal profiling became integrated into standard investigative practices within law enforcement not before the 1980s. Criminal profilers primarily fulfill their role by working on the resolution of intricate crimes where the identity of the perpetrator is unknown. On the other hand, they also have a suppressive impact, and to a lesser degree, a preventive influence, which is enhanced by considering the risk factors associated with the emergence of criminal behavior, as well as the study of criminal phenomenology. The techniques employed in criminal profiling aid in the timely identification of symptoms that indicate a combination of biological, social, and environmental factors, including learning and situational elements. As we navigate through the factors contributing to the development of criminal behavior, as well as the suppression and prevention of crime through the efforts of criminal profilers, we reach the significance of their role in detecting deception and the essentiality of human presence and intervention in diverse formal conversations, encompassing law enforcement, social work, and education. The aim of this paper is to systematically shed light on the factors contributing to the development of criminal behavior, to investigate the phenomenology of crime and to highlight the role of criminal profilers in the prevention and suppression of crime, as well as to analyze their role in the process of lie detection, while giving recommendations for the incorporation of profiling techniques into the body of knowledge and skills of teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, social workers, and others. The methods used in this study include a quantitative and qualitative analysis, using primary and secondary sources, as well as a comparative analysis. Rezime: Ljudi su od davnina bili skloni da analiziraju i procenjuju druge ljude, ali i životinje, predmete i slično, čak i u svakodnevnim situacijama, tako da je pomalo neobično da je kriminalističko profilisanje postalo deo redovnih istražnih procedura u organima za sprovođenje zakona tek osamdesetih godina dvadesetog veka. Uloga kriminalističkih profajlera primarno se ostvaruje kroz rad na rešavanju učinjenih kompleksnih krivičnih dela gde je učinilac nepoznat, ali takođe svojim delovanjem vrše kako supresivni, tako u manjoj meri i preventivni efekat, koji postaje amplifikovan uključivanjem elemenata faktora rizika za razvoj kriminalnog ponašanja, kao i kriminalističku fenomenologiju. Tehnike koje se koriste u kriminalističkom profilisanju pomažu u ranom prepoznavanju simptoma koji ukazuju i na biološke, socijalne, i faktore okruženja, uključujući faktore učenja i situacione faktore. Krećući se između faktora geneze kriminalnog ponašanja, supresije i prevencije kriminaliteta kao posledice rada kriminalističkih profajlera, dolazimo do uloge profajlera u detektovanju laži, i neophodnosti ljudskog prisustva i intervencije u raznim formama formalnih razgovora, bilo da se radi o sprovođenju zakona, socijalnom radu ili edukaciji. Cilj ovog rada je sistematski rasvetliti faktore koji doprinose razvoju kriminalnog ponašanja, istražiti fenomenologiju kriminala i istaći ulogu kriminalističkih profajlera u prevenciji i supresiji kriminaliteta, kao i analizirati njihovu ulogu u procesu detekcije laži, uz davanje preporuka za inkorporaciju profajlerskih tehnika u korpus znanja i veština nastavnika, pedagoga, psihologa, socijalnih radnika i drugo. Metode koje su korišćene u ovom studiju obuhvataju kvantitativnu i kvalitativnu analizu, korišćenje primarnih i sekundarnih izvora, kao i komparativnu analizu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Pravo - teorija i praksa vol. 40 br. 2 str. 17-33 Bjelajac, Željko Filipović, Aleksandar M. https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:2496 doi:10.5937/ptp2302017B ISSN: 0352-3713 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/article Keywords: criminal profiling, development of criminal behavior, risk factors, lie detection, crime prevention Ključne reči: kriminalističko profilisanje, razvoj kriminalnog ponašanja, faktori rizika, detekcija laži, prevencija kriminaliteta application/pdf 363482 bytes Criminal profilers – human lie detectors Kriminalistički profajleri – živi detektori laži