Deductive Profiling
In Woodworth and Porter’s (2000) article the pair look at deductive profiling and profilers themselves and discuss the original ways that profilers would develop a profile. In the early years of criminal profiling the rate of serious crimes, like murder, were low and therefore there was not the availability to use inductive profiling methods as much, so profilers were left to collect their information for the profile from the crime scene, witness accounts, victims (if they survived), forensics, and the autopsy if there was one (Woodworth, 2000). Woodworth and Porter (2000) point out that when criminal profiling was first used it was never meant to be used as the sole tactic for apprehending the perpetrator, but rather to assist the police in narrowing down the suspect pool so that it was less of a needle-in-a-hay-stack search. Profilers were only to collect as much information as they could and make minimal inferences in a way to help law enforcement in the best and most accurate way that they could. The biggest problem that Woodworth and Porter (2000) point out when it comes to deductive profiling is that most of the time profilers will try to draw connections of other crimes to the same perpetrator, but because of situational factors the M.O. (method of crime commission) can change easily …show more content…
It is because of this that the accuracy and trust in profiling has fallen; investigators are so keen on finding the perpetrator of open cases that they will try to connect the crimes and it can compromise the profile if the crimes were in fact not committed by
In Woodworth and Porter’s (2000) article the pair look at deductive profiling and profilers themselves and discuss the original ways that profilers would develop a profile. In the early years of criminal profiling the rate of serious crimes, like murder, were low and therefore there was not the availability to use inductive profiling methods as much, so profilers were left to collect their information for the profile from the crime scene, witness accounts, victims (if they survived), forensics, and the autopsy if there was one (Woodworth, 2000). Woodworth and Porter (2000) point out that when criminal profiling was first used it was never meant to be used as the sole tactic for apprehending the perpetrator, but rather to assist the police in narrowing down the suspect pool so that it was less of a needle-in-a-hay-stack search. Profilers were only to collect as much information as they could and make minimal inferences in a way to help law enforcement in the best and most accurate way that they could. The biggest problem that Woodworth and Porter (2000) point out when it comes to deductive profiling is that most of the time profilers will try to draw connections of other crimes to the same perpetrator, but because of situational factors the M.O. (method of crime commission) can change easily …show more content…
It is because of this that the accuracy and trust in profiling has fallen; investigators are so keen on finding the perpetrator of open cases that they will try to connect the crimes and it can compromise the profile if the crimes were in fact not committed by