What is the data-driven approach?
A profiling approach that builds offender hypotheses from the evidence and patterns found in individual crimes.
What was the data-driven approach previously called?
The bottom-up approach.
What is investigative psychology?
The scientific application of psychological research, theory and statistical analysis to criminal investigations.
What is interpersonal coherence?
The idea that an offender's behaviour towards victims may reflect their behaviour in everyday relationships.
What is behavioural consistency?
The tendency for some aspects of an offender's behaviour to recur across offences.
What is Smallest Space Analysis?
A statistical technique that represents behaviours according to how frequently they occur together.
What is geographical profiling?
Analysing the locations of linked crimes to identify an offender's likely base or operational area.
What is a marauder?
An offender whose home or operational base lies within the general area of their crimes.
What is a commuter?
An offender who travels away from their home area before beginning to offend.
What did Canter and Heritage (1990) analyse?
They analysed 66 sexual assaults committed by 27 offenders using 33 behavioural variables and Smallest Space Analysis.