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    • some usefulness Copson, again! Interviewed 48 police forces
    75% of officers found Canter’s Bottom up approach useful
    only 3% said that it actually helped to catch the offender which undermines,usefulness, suggests the approach actually has little application in actually being able to solve real life crimes.
    • further emphasised by the fact profiles are often only narrowing possibility rather than exact answers ,profiler officer - Britton lead search to wrong man, expensive and a miscarriage of justice, therefore focusing on one profile could be misleading and should be used with caution.
    • emphasis on data and statistical analysis, = more objective and arguably more scientific Instead of relying on intuition or experience
    • For instance, Canter and Heritage (1990) analyzed data from a large sample of solved murder cases and identified five key variables that formed distinct patterns of behavior.eg amount of interaction before death.
    • allows for more systematic comparisons between crimes highlight potential suspects who might be overlooked.
    • unlike the top-down approach, primarily focuses violent crimes like murder, the bottom-up approach- wider range of offenses, stems from its foundation in analyzing behavioral patterns evident in various crimes, burglary, arson, and cybercrime.
    • Lundrigan and Canter (2001) used smallest space analysis examinespatial behavior of serial arsonists.
    • disposal site of an arsonist's materials often provided valuable clues about their residence or workplace.
    • some usefulness Copson, again! 1995 Interviewed 48 police forces
    • limited to spatial behaviour, ignores personality characteristics= unable to distinguish multiple offenders in an area
    • Classification may also not be useful Rossmo suggests that GP is only accurate for marauders so explanation is only partially relevant be useful for interpersonal crime, less accurate foreg property crime which is more likely commuters.
    • ,Pentherick exposed flaws if an offenders home base is not at centre police may look wrong place. 
    • circle = oversimplistic as in cities the pattern may form an ellipse or another shape= limited applications.
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