Comparer des méthodes

	Profilage géographique	Analyse de recoupement d'affaires criminelles
Domaine	Criminalistique	Criminalistique
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1994	2002
Auteur d'origine	David Canter	Craig Bennell
Type	Geographic and spatial analytics method	Crime science and offender profiling method
Source fondatrice	Canter, D. V., & Hammond, L. (1994). Picking up the pieces: The identification of glass sources in forensic enquiries. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 39(4), 1018-1034.	Bennell, C., Canter, D. V., & Alison, L. J. (2002). Linking commercial burglaries by modus operandi: Tests using regression and ROC analysis. Science and Justice, 42(3), 153-164.
Alias	spatial crime analysis, crime hotspot mapping	case linkage, offender linking, serial crime attribution
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	Geographic profiling is a spatial analysis method used in forensic investigation to locate offenders based on the locations of their crimes. Developed by David Canter in 1994, it combines geostatistics, probability theory, and crime pattern analysis to identify high-probability crime origin zones. The method has been widely adopted in law enforcement agencies across North America and Europe.	Crime linkage analysis is a forensic method that determines whether a series of crimes were committed by the same offender based on behavioral and modus operandi (MO) similarities. Developed systematically by Craig Bennell and colleagues in the early 2000s, crime linkage applies statistical and similarity-matching techniques to establish offender attribution. The method is essential in serial crime investigation, where establishing linkage enables consolidation of investigation resources, geographic profiling, and offender-focused surveillance.