Exam 2 - Textbook Terms Chapter 5 Flashcards
_________- In geographic profiling, the location from which the offender leaves to commit crimes. Usually, the anchor point is the criminal’s home, but it could also be a workplace or another location.
anchor point
_________ - Advice offered to investigators by social scientists— for example, advice on how to use the media, what questions to ask during police interviews with suspects, and whether a crime might be part of a series of crimes. belief in a just world
behavioral investigative advice (BIA)
_________ - In geographic profiling, the area in which the criminal is less likely to commit crimes.
buffer zone
_________ - The process of determining whether the same person committed two or more crimes.
case linkage
_________ - Serial killers who tend to kill impulsively by picking their victims at random, acting out of sudden rage or because they hear voices telling them to kill; they are more likely to use any weapon that happens to be available, leave the weapon at the crime scene, and use the dead body for sexual purposes.
disorganized murderers
_________ - In geographic profiling, the principle that the probability of a crime decreases as distance from past crime locations increases.
distance decay
_________ - A death with unknown cause.
equivocal death
_________ - The process of estimating the general vicinity of a criminal’s home or place of work or projecting the location of the next crime, based on the pattern of past crimes and the geographic features of particular places.
geographic profiling (or criminal spatial mapping)
_________ - Serial killers who kill for thrills and take sadistic sexual pleasure in torturing their victims.
hedonistic types
_________ - Serial killers who are less likely than visionary types to be psychotic and are motivated by a desire to kill people they regard as evil or unworthy.dition.
mission-oriented types
_________ - A classification system for types of deaths, with four categories: natural, accidental, suicide, and homicide.
NASH system
_________ - Serial killers who kill by carefully selecting and stalking their victims and planning what they will do to their victims; they show patience and self-control by waiting for the right opportunity and then cleaning up evidence after the murder.
organized murderers
_________ - Serial killers who get satisfaction from capturing and controlling the victim before killing.
power-oriented types
_________ - techniques combine traditional criminal data with unorthodox information to generate predictions about where crime is likely to happen in the future.
Predictive policing
_________ - Evidence that provides information that is useful in assessing whether a person committed a crime. To be admissible in court, the probative value of a piece of evidence must not be substantially outweighed by its potential prejudicial impact.
probative evidence
