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• What is the aim of investigative psychology?

  To establish patterns of behavior across crime scenes
• How does investigative psychology help police?

  It develops a statistical database for comparisons
• What can details of an offence reveal about an offender?

  Personal history and family background
• What is interpersonal coherence in investigative psychology?

  Offender's behavior at the scene reflects real life
• Why is the time and place of an offence important?

  It may indicate where the offender is living
• What does forensic awareness indicate?

  Offender's previous police interrogation experience
• What does geographical profiling use to make inferences?

  Information about the location of crime scenes
• What principle is geographical profiling based on?

  Spatial consistency in crime commission
• How does geographical profiling assist in understanding offenders?

  It creates hypotheses about their thinking and behavior
• What does the circle theory suggest about offenders?

  Offending patterns form a circle around their home base
• What are the two types of offenders in geographical profiling?

  Marauder and commuter
• What insights does geographical profiling provide investigators?

  Nature of the offence and offenders' mental maps
• What factors can geographical profiling reveal about an offender?

  Mode of transport, employment status, and age