Contemporary Challenges in Investigative Psychology: Revisiting the Canter Offender Profiling Equations

Donna Youngs; Elizabeth Spruin

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Contemporary Challenges in Investigative Psychology: Revisiting the Canter Offender Profiling Equations

Donna Youngs, Elizabeth Spruin

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Behavioural Analysis of Crime
Subtitle of host publication	Studies in David Canter's Investigative Psychology
Editors	Donna Youngs
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Chapter	13
Pages	233-244
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315568911
ISBN (Print)	9780754626220, 9780754626282
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315568911-20
Publication status	Published - 28 Sep 2013

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Contemporary Challenges in Investigative Psychology : Revisiting the Canter Offender Profiling Equations. / Youngs, Donna; Spruin, Elizabeth.

The Behavioural Analysis of Crime: Studies in David Canter's Investigative Psychology. ed. / Donna Youngs. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2013. p. 233-244 (Psychology, Crime and Law).

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