Introduction to offender profiling; personality and clinical approaches to offender profiling; the Criminal Investigative Analysis method used by the FBI; the Investigative Psychology approach; the advantages and disadvantages of each method of offender profiling; the actual use of offender profiling; the application of offender profiling to the Mauritian context; the future of offender profiling; offender profiling: a science or an art? an overview of Molecular Biology with reference to Gene structure, variation and diversity, explore advanced molecular techniques and their applications in Forensic Science.