ABSTRACT
The following is an updated version of a chapter first published by me (Youngs, 2008) in Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap (Canter and Zikauskienne, 2008). It specifies some of the conceptual challenges that arise in developing investigative inferences: a) Criminal Pertinence, b) Contingency Destabilisation, c) Criminal Salience, d) Integrative Modelling, e) Inferential Fluency, and f) the Canonical Form of the A-C relationship. This analysis builds on David Canter’s early modelling of the ‘profiling’ problem as the establishment of the Actions-Characteristics equations (Canter, 1993). I’m grateful to Liz Spruin for all her help in updating the references from my original chapter for this volume.
