Bottom Up Profiling

Question 1

Bottom up approach

Answer 1

Profilers work up from evidence collected from the crime scene to develop hypotheses about the likely characteristics of the offender.

Question 2

Investigative Psychology

Answer 2

A 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.