Dizinin temel esprisi, "Bir suçluyu yakalamak istiyorsanız onun gibi düşünün" sözünde yatıyor. Quantico'daki Davranış Analizi Ünitesi'nde çalışan ajanlar, suçluların psikolojilerinden, davranış biçimlerinden yola çıkarak suçu çözüyor. Yöntem: Davranış psikolojisinin uygulanması, istatistikler, ajanların deneyimleri, 'hızlı hızlı konuşanlar bir şey saklıyordur' önermesinde olduğu gibi çıkarsamalar.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a drama about the specialized International Division of the FBI tasked with solving crimes and coming to the rescue of Americans who find themselves in danger while abroad.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior was a short-lived American police procedural drama that aired on CBS. The show debuted in 2011 as a spin-off from the successful Criminal Minds, which had premiered in 2005. This edition's profiling team also worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia. In an April 2010 episode of Criminal Minds, during the show's fifth season, the original team met the new team and worked with them to find a San Francisco serial killer. This episode served as the new series' backdoor pilot.

Based on the US TV series of the same name, profilers investigate cases from the perspective of the criminals to solve them.

Criminal Mindscape is a television documentary series on MSNBC that profiles the minds of extreme criminals. Different interviewers interview subjects such as Ron Luff and Joseph Paul Franklin. Interviewers are often from various fields of criminal justice as opposed to journalism. Interviewers attempt to develop psychological profiles of individual criminals.

A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he had to confront his inner demon in order to track down the serial killer.

A team of tenacious detectives study the minds of murderers at a time when Korea's first serial murders terrorized the nation. Based on true events.