bottom up offending profile

• aim of the bottom up offending profile it to generate a picture of the offender through systematic analysis of evidence at the crime scene.
• profilers look at the crime scene and make influences about possible offenders like the top down approach
• the profiles are driven from actual data rather than 'above' from a profiler in the top up approach.
• Profilers work from evidence collected from the crime scene to develop a hypothesis about the likely characteristics and motivation of the offender.
• the profile is data-driven and it emerges as the investigators gather and analyse more and more data/ information about the crime. its more grounded in psychological theory and linked to the work of David Canter is based on more empirical methods
• investigative psychology:

  When a crime occurs we record details about the offender such as:

  personal history
• interpersonal conferenece:

  way the offender behaves at the scene and how they interact with their victims. this behaviour may reflect their everyday behaviour. there is usually correlation between how they behave in real life and when committing a crime. its assumed the victims may represent significant people in the offenders life outside the criminal event