Criminal Minds (season 17)

Based in Quantico, Virginia, the Division of Behavioral Analysis is a division of the FBI. Called in by local police departments to assist in solving serial and extremely violent crimes where the perpetrator is unknown, the B.A.U uses the controversial scientific art of profiling to track and apprehend the subject. Profiling involves compiling basic characteristics of the subject and victims (called victimology), using the evidence in the case, and correlating this information with historical precedents and psychological analysis as a means of solving the case. Because of the nature of the work conducted by the B.A.U.. - time-consuming and psychologically demanding work, its members have a fervent loyalty to the unit and its other members. Also because the work is demanding, not many B.A.U. members have been able to maintain a happy or stable family lifern