Forensic psychology: bottom up approach

Question 1

what is the bottom up approach

Answer 1

.start with the small details of the case and piece together the profile of a suspect by looking at the finer details

Question 2

who came up with the bottom up approach?

Answer 2

.david canter

Question 3

what kind of data does the bottom up approach use?

Answer 3

.empirical data

Question 4

what is investigative psychology?

Answer 4

.applying computer databases and psychological theory to look at behaviour across scenes

Question 5

what are the 3 types of investigative psychology?

Answer 5

.interpersonal coherence
.forensic awareness
.data analysis

Question 6

what is interpersonal coherence?

Answer 6

.the way in which the offender behaves at the crime scene, may reflect their behaviour is everyday circumstances

Question 7

what is forensic awareness?

Answer 7

.individuals who have been subject of police interrogation before, so they have knowledge of the police system

Question 8

what is data analysis?

Answer 8

.recording specific patterns of behaviour form the crime scene and comparing it against a data base of existing crimes to reveal offender characteristics

Question 9

what is the other expect involved with the bottom up approach?

Answer 9

.geographical profiling

Question 10

what is geographical profiling based on?

Answer 10

.principle of spatial consistency

Question 11

what is geographical profiling?

Answer 11

.an offenders operational base and possible future offences are revealed by the geographical location of their previous crimes

Question 12

what is geographical profiling based on?

Answer 12

.based on the assumption that the offender will restrict their work to locations they are familiar with

Question 13

what are the strengths to using a bottom up approach?

Answer 13

.more scientific -based on statistical data rather than intuition so more objective
.supporting evidence -copson (1995) found that 75% of 48 UK police officers said profiler evidence has been useful

Question 14

what are some limitations of taking a bottom up approach?

Answer 14

.not entirely useful -copson found that only 3% of the 48 UK police officers said the profiler advice had helped to actually identify the offender
.could send police the wrong way -petherick 2006 claimed that geographical profiling might encourage police to search in the wrong place