Is the American approach better than Canters? The American approach to offender profiling according to Webber (2009, p42) is a method based on interviewing convicted serial killers, to see how they describe their offending. They then use this information to examine crime scenes to determine what type of person might have committed the previously mentioned offenses. This style of offender profiling is associated with that of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit (Webber 2009, p42). Holmes and Holmes (2002 cited in Webber 2009, p42) state that serial killers tend to be white males, between 25 and 34 years old, intelligent. or “smart” charming and charismatic with an interest in police work. They draw up a typology of the different types of serial killers. The first distinction lies in the spatial configuration of the murderers' locations. They argue that this tends to be either concentrated or spatially dispersed. These phenomena are described as geographically transient and geographically stable (Holmes and Holmes 2002 cited in Webber 2009). Scattered killings may indicate that the killer has access to a vehicle and is moving around to confuse law enforcement. It could also mean that the killer drives for a living or has lived in various locations, suggest Holmes and Holmes (2002 cited in Webber 2009). A geographically stable serial killer tends to live in one area for a period of time and kill close to home. This aspect of serial murder is key to Canter's approach to what he calls investigative psychology (Webber 2009 p36). The British approachWebber (2009) argues that the British approach to offender profiling is based on a method that seeks to understand the actions of offenders. the criminal through the actions of “quantitative scientific methodologies”. This is presented...... middle of paper ......s. New York. Copson, G. (1995) Coals in Newcastle? Part 1: A study of offender profiling. Police Research Group, Special Interest Paper 7. London: Home Office. Innes, M. (2003) Understanding social control: deviance, crime and social disorder. Open University Press. Berkshire England. Gibson, M. and Rafter, N. (2008) The Criminal Man: Cesare Lombroso. Library of Congress. United States.Rumbelow, 1988,Petharick 2009Woodworth and Porter (2001)Shone, R. (2008) Solving Crimes Through Criminal Profiling. Rosen Publishing Group. New York. Douglas, JE Ressler, RK Burgess, RN Hartman, RN (1986) Criminal profiling from crime scene analysis. John Wiley and Sons Inc.Roth & Olson 2001Homant & Kennedy, 1998Dwyer, D. (2001) Angles on Criminal Psychology. London UK.Ramsland (2010Rossmo, DK (2000) Geographic Profiling. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.