Inductive and deductive provide an effective assessment by utilizing inductive and deductive profiling
methods to see how one case relate to another and focusing on the evidence and profile of one suspect
without comparison. Inductive reasoning use information from previous cases and deductive reasoning
use information solely related to the individual case.
Inductive reasoning uses previous crime scenes, evidence, and profiles of previous cases to compare and
profile new cases. This approach is less time consuming, inexpensive, and allow you to detect patterns in
cases. Although, the faults of using this method would be over correlating two cases and mis profiling
the suspect due to lack of individual evidence examination that focus on the individuality of the specific
case. The assessment should allow you to have a comparison to prior cases while still having its
uniqueness that will lead you narrowing the pool of suspects.
Deductive profiling focus on the single crime scene, victim, and evidence relating only to that case. This
allows for more precision and details without misinterpreting or incorporating previous evidence into
the new case. This process is timelier, but the profile will be more accurate when its focus based is on
the individual case. The faults of focusing primarily on evidence to one specific case crime scene is that
creating a profile for the suspect would be harder if you’re not aware of what type of person would
commit that sort of crime in a specific manner. This wouldn’t be as helpful in profiling someone with
psychopathological issues without comparing them to other cases.