4 Critical Assumptions for Offender Profiling – Factual?

2) Behavioural Consistency – Offenders will be consistent in behaviour across crimes

This type of consistency has been seen across a wide variety of crimes, including arson (Ellingwood et al, 2013), autocrime (Davies et al, 2012), commercial robbery (Woodhams & Toye, 2007), stranger sex offences (Bennell et al, 2009) and murder (Bateman & Salfati, 2007). This assumption seems to be well supported, and thus supports the idea that offender profiling is indeed useful.