ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the methodological considerations and presents the explanation of the selection of the literature and the limitations. As analytic researchers continue to explore the use of imaginal methodologies, perhaps these various methodological contingencies will find a new unity. An imaginally informed methodology asks the researcher to not only examine the use of imagination but the very images that inform the practices being examined. Researchers immersing themselves in the images of the practice of criminal profiling are achieving a type of imaginal hermeneutic. Near the end of any research study or theoretical work, tradition compels authors to discuss the limitations of their project and suggest further avenues of inquiry. Researchers often grudgingly list these limitations as concessions to form, and the suggestions can sometimes be perfunctory possibilities. In the search for a methodology that might embrace questioning as a concrete result, one option would be a sort of Socratic research model.
