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Offender Profiling Flashcards

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What is offender profiling?

A

A description of an offender.

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What are the two main types of offender profiling?

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Typology approach

Geographical approach

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What are the two features of these crimes?

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Corpus delecti

Modus operandi

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What is the corpus delecti?

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The evidence from the crime.

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What is the modus operandi?

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The method of the crime.

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Holmes and Holmes identified three major goals to profiling. What are they?

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Social and psychological assessments
Psychological evaluation of belongings
Interviewing suggestions

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Who identified the three main goals of profiling?

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Holmes and Holmes

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What is the typology approach based on?

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Interviews of 36 convicted criminals

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What does the typology approach focus on?

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The characteristics of the offender

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What did the FBI interview the criminals about?

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Their background, crime scenes and victims.

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What two categories did the FBI develop from their interviews?

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Organised and Disorganised

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According to the typology approach, what is meant by an organised criminal?

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Crime scenes are planned and lack evidence

The offender is intelligent and socially competent

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According to the typology approach, what is meant by disorganised?

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Crime scene has physical evidence and the crime was spontaneous
The offender is not intelligent and lacks social skills.

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13
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Give three characteristics of the organised offender.

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Intelligent
Has a good job
Socially and sexually competent

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Give three characteristics of the disorganised offender.

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Not well educated
Unskilled work or unemployed
Spontaneous attack

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Why type of approach is the typology approach?

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A top-down approach

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Jackson and Berkerian say the FBI approach has four stages, what are they?

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Data Assimilation
Crime Classification
Crime Reconstruction
Profile Generation

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What is Data Assimilation?

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Collection of information

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What is Crime Classification?

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Categorising the crime into either organised or disorganised.

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What is Crime Reconstruction?

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Re-enact the crime and develop a hypothesis.

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What is Profile Generation?

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Creating a profile of the offender.

21
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Who argued there were four stages to the typology approach?

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Jackson and Berkerian

22
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Who argued that the typology approach should add in a third category of mixed offenders?

A

Douglas

23
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Who has evidence to support that the typology approach has some use?

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Pinizzotto and Finkel

24
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What evidence do Pinizzotto and Finkel have for the typology approach?

A

They compared the profiles of trained profilers, students, FBI officers and clinical psychologists in a sex case and homicide. They found that the trained profilers were more accurate in the sex case, but we’re no more accurate in the homicide.

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What may negatively impact the profile in the typology approach?

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If the information it is based on is untrue.

26
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What is wrong with the basis of the typology approach?

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The information was collected from convicted criminals, not including those who haven’t been caught.
Small sample.

27
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What does the typology approach fail to take into account?

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Individual differences between offenders.

28
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Who devised the geographical approach?

A

David Canter

29
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What type of approach is the geographical approach?

A

Bottom-up approach

30
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What is used to develop a profile in the geographical approach?

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Physical evidence from the crime scene

31
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Canter identified three aspects of criminal behaviour. What are they?

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Interpersonal coherence
Significance of time and place
Forensic awareness

32
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What is meant by interpersonal coherence?

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Consistencies in the treatment of victims

33
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What is meant by forensic awareness?

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Knowing if the offender has preciously been questioned by police.

34
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What profile does the geographical approach arrive at?

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The living or operational base of the offender.

35
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The geographical approach used the assumption that…

A

Offenders work in areas they know well

36
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What does the geographical information of the crime produce?

A

A mental map

37
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The geographical approach uses a computer system called what?

A

The Criminal Geographical Targeting Spacial Data

38
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What is the Criminal Geographical Targeting Spacial Data?

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Data that relates to the distance, movement and travel time which produces a 3D jeopardy surface.

39
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What is the main negative evaluation point about the geographical approach?

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It searches for offenders based on what is most likely, but in some cases, what is most likely is actually incorrect.

40
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What is wrong with the geographical approach’s focus?

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It places too much emphasis on geographical data and not enough on psychological data.

41
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What did Copson and Holloway find?

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That geographical profiling only helped to solve 16% of cases.

42
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Who found that profiling only solved 16% of cases?

A

Copson and Hollaway

43
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What did Britton find?

A

That CID Chiefs found profiling useless in arrests but felt it had high potential.

44
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Who found that geographical profiling had potential?

A

Britton

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