The bottom-up approach to offender profiling
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 10-06-19 14:38
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- The bottom-up approach (UK)
- Investigative psychology
- Interpersonal coherence; consistent behaviour in real life and crime scene
- Time and place; gives details of daily life of offender (where crime fits in schedule)
- Criminal characteristics categorising criminals
- Criminal career; escalation
- Forensic awareness; whether evidence is available
- Geographical profiling
- Locatedness; all locations involved in crime can trace back to offender
- Systematic crime location choice; familiar locations to offender
- Centrality; commuters (travel for crimes), marauders (stay near home)
- Comparative case analysis; other crimes being considered as committed by offender
- Case study (John Duffy)
- 12/17 suggested characteristic were correct
- Provided basis for arrest
- Geographical evidence was largely invaluable
- 12/17 suggested characteristic were correct
- Evaluation
- Requires stats from other crimes that are difficult to acquire
- Usable with many types of crime
- Reductionist as only considers geography
- Could miss vital info
- Based on stats and research so more scientific than top-down
- Investigative psychology
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