ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Laura Hammond and I provide an overview based on a couple of books David Canter and I put together, of what has become a highly active area of Investigative Psychology: Geographical Offender Profiling (see Canter and Youngs, 2008a, 2008b). It is an area of IP that has particular applied potential, leading to the development of software systems to support the decisions of investigators and law enforcement analysts about where to search for a perpetrator (see Canter’s commentary on the debate about the utility of such systems in Section 4).
