L2- Bottom-Up Aproach To Offender Profiling

Question 1

What is the bottom-up approach?

Answer 1

Aim is to generate a picture or the offender, including likely characteristics, routine behaviour, and social background.

• developed in the UK.
• is far more grounded in psychological theory then top-down approach.

Question 2

Bottom up approach methods.

Answer 2

• systematic analysis of evidence left at the crime scene.
• does not begin with fixed typologies, instead the profile is data driven and emerges as the profiler engages in rigorous scrutiny of details of the offence.

Question 3

Investigative psychology: aim

Answer 3

To establish behaviours that are likely to occur at certain crime scenes.

• this is done to create a statistical database which then acts as a baseline for comparison.
• details of an offence can then be matched against the database in order to reveal statistically probable details about the offence.
• can also help determine is multiple offences are linked and likely to have been committed by the same individual.