Articles Books Book Reviews Careers Case Studies CHAT Criminal Profiling Events-conferences, etc. This business of inductive vs. deductive profiling, after having seen how it has been defined, I do both. No I don't do that.
Every case is different.
So the only thing the profilers will put down on paper, is really what we're looking at, motive. Really stuff coming from the Crime Classification Manual, which has been tested by the Canadians and found it to be very reliable and very valid. Prosecutors and defense attorneys use it, probably more than any other book in trying to establish motive, signature, and modus operandi. The Crime Classification Manual was the basis of my dissertation. So when we do the profile, it is to find the motive and to reconstruct the crime.