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- Canter (1990) is the UK’s foremost profiling expert; his bottom-up approach looks for consistencies in offenders’ behavior during the crime. Canter’s most famous case is that of the ‘Railway Rapist’ John Duffy. John Duffy carried out 24 sexual attacks and 3 murders of women near railway stations in North London in the 1980s.
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Nov 10, 2023 · Canter (1990) is the UK’s foremost profiling expert; his bottom-up approach looks for consistencies in offenders’ behavior during the crime. Canter’s most famous case is that of the ‘Railway Rapist’ John Duffy.
Jul 21, 2014 · The approaches described in these chapters highlight some innovative theoretical perspectives championed by Canter and his colleagues and demonstrates the range of influence that these interdisciplinary approaches can have on understanding offending behaviour.
- Lisa Smith
- 2015
Canter has evolved innovative statistical procedures (e.g. SSA, MSA and POSA) for modelling criminal behavioural variation, offender consistency and comparative case analyses, for mapping of offender characteristics on to offending behaviour domains.
Apr 12, 2016 · The intense interest in 'offender profiling' generated by FBI special agents, gave rise to an explosion of studies in a new area called ’investigative psychology’ by its originator David Canter. This develops understanding of offenders' behaviour that can be harnessed to improve investigations.
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Canter's approach to understanding offending behaviour as an extension of an offend- er's non-criminal activity provides a psychological perspective on criminological theo- ries such as Routine Activity Theory.
Jan 1, 2009 · The main tenet of Canter's theory was that offenders do not live and operate in a vacuum but, rather, their criminal behavior mirrors their noncriminal behavior. This led to what Canter referred to as a “criminal shadow.”
Models of differentiation. The research reviewed mainly supports distinctions between criminals in terms of the forms of their transactions with their explicit or implicit victims. Consistency. Offenders have been shown to exhibit similar patterns of action on different occasions.
