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  Providing answers to a criminal inquiry requires systematization of information at hand. Using this information we want to arrive at rational conclusions rather than depending on suppositions. But, why should Investigative Process Management be a matter of the systematization of question-resolving conjecture with experience? The answer lies in the consideration that systembuilding is not an end in itself, it is a process subject to objectives and the systematization of data in its original form.   The starting point in any police inquiry is set by factual questions about the case, to which we need to have the best available answers. At this juncture a “this-or-nothing” argument comes into operation. The investigator’s only access to information about cases is through his interaction with past criminal cases. The same applies to those individuals who have studied criminal behavior in a clinical environment. Such interaction is what experience is all about. Here, of course, “e...

The actions of serial murderers from a behavioral approach - looks at behaviors that can be observed rather than the individual’s internal workings, moreover, “only individuals can observe their perceptions and feelings, but someone else can observe your actions.” Consequently, it seems more reasonable to consider crime scene actions as experiences of behavior rather than particular manifestations of intrinsic psychopathology. The behavioral approach to classifying serial murderers’ actions suggests that an individual’s actions are the result of interaction between personality characteristics and the social and physical conditions of the situation. An inductive behavioral approach to modeling serial murderers sees behavior as mostly being consistent across a number of situations rather than specific to a  particular environmental context. By employing the inductive behavioral approach, trends in how serial murderers behave from one crime to the next can be explored. Researchers oft...