Offender Profiling: The Bottom-Up Approach

The Bottom-Up Approach

The approach is data dirven and is based on theory which automatically makes it more scientific then the Top-Down approach. It has two major parts to this approach Investigative psychology and Geographical profiling.

Investigative Psychology- Uses characteristics of the person (Canter)

• Interpersonal coherence - Personality is consistent which provideds clues and changes in circumstance…