Bottom-up approach

Question 1

Bottom-up approach

Answer 1

Profilers work up from evidence collected from the crime scene to develop hypotheses about the likely characteristics, motivations and social background of the offender.

Question 2

Investigative
Psychology

Answer 2

form of bottom-up profiling that matches details from the crime scene with statistical analysis of typical offender behaviour patterns based on psychological theory

Question 3

Geographical profiling

Answer 3

A form of bottom-up profiling based on the principle of spatial consistency - that an offender’s operational base and possible future offences are revealed by the geographical location of their previous crimes.