Offender Profiling : Top-Down Approach Flashcards

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About Offender Profiling

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  • Aims to narrow list of likely suspects
  • Professional profilers are work alongside police
  • crime scene and other evidence is analysed to form hypotheses about offender characteristics
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How Top-down approach Categories Were Formed - FBI data

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  • FBI interviewed 36 sexually motivated murders & used data collected + characteristics of crime to form 2 categories

=> if data from crime scene matched some features of 1 category, other characteristics can be predicted

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Offender types are based on what?

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.. signature ways of working
generally correlate w/ particular set of social + psychological characteristics that relate to the individual

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Organised offender characteristics

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=> evidence of planning + targeting victims
=> high degree of control during crime + little evidence left
=> above average IQ - in a skilled job

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Disorganised offender characteristics

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=> offence is spontaneous
=> impulsive w/ little control of crime
=> below average IQ

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4 Stages of FBI profile construction

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(1) Data assimilation - reviewing evidence
(2) Crime scene classification - organised or disorganised
(3) Crime reconstruction - hypotheses about behaviour + events
(4) Profile generation - hypotheses about offender

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