Forensics- Top Down Offender Profiling

Question 1

Organised Offenders

Answer 1

Planned, deliberate target, victim ‘type’, control during crime, no evidence, skilled, intelligent, sexually competent, married.

Question 2

Disorganised Offenders

Answer 2

No evidence of planning, spontaneous, evidence, little control during, low IQ, unemployed/ unskilled working, sexually incompetent, live close.

Question 3

4 points of constructing profiles

Answer 3

1- Data assimilation, reviews evidence
2- Scene classified, organised/ disorganised?
3- Scene reconstructed, looks at events, victim behaviour
4- Profile generation, offenders likely behaviour, background

Question 4

AO3 (1)

Answer 4

-Only applies to certain crimes, ones that reveal suspect details (e.g. rape, torture)
-Cannot be applied to burglary (e.g.)- scene tells us too little

Question 5

AO3 (2)

Answer 5

-Used by professional profilers in the US.
-Lines become blurred when crime does not easily fit into one category.
-Canter, evidence for characteristics of organised killer, too little for disorganised.

Question 6

AO3 (3)

Answer 6

-Successful practical examples
-Shawcross, highly accurate- only inaccuracy was age, however mental age was correct even though he was older.