Profiling

Question 1

What is profiling?

Answer 1

It is the process of drawing inferences about a criminal’s personality, behaviour, motivation, and demographic characteristics based on a crime scene and other evidence

Question 2

What is the Purpose of Profiling

Answer 2

1- To help identify the suspect
2-To set traps
3-Determine if a note should be taken seriously
4-how to cross examine at trial

Question 3

when profiling what do we look for?

Answer 3

1-Personality
2- Motivations
3-Psychal traits
4- Demographic
5-signature

Question 4

what are the Key features of profiling

Answer 4

WHY: MOTIVATION
WHAT: CRIME SCEME
WHO: SIGNATURE M.O

Question 5

What is a M.O

Answer 5

• standar procedure
• what an offender does to accomplish the crime
• gets modified and perfected

Question 6

What is a signature

Answer 6

• what makes the offender fulfilled emotionally
• not needed to complete the crime

Question 7

Inductive vs Deductive Profiling describe each

Answer 7

Deductive:

• Logic
  -Predict characteristics based on -evidence left
  Ex: fingernails
  -Can be faulty

Inductive:
-Use comparison
-Examine new crime scene & old
-Organized vs Disorganized
-Not helpful if unique

Question 8

what is the organized behaviour and personality

Answer 8

Organized Behaviors
-Planned
-Use restraints
-Little evidence left
-Use of vehicle
-Corpse not taken
-No post-mortem acts

Organized Personality
-High intelligence
-Sexually adequate
-Lives with partner
-Follows crime in media
-Lives & works away from crime

Question 9

what is disorganized behaviour and personality?

Answer 9

Disorganized Behaviors
-Impulsive
-No restraints
-Evidence left
-No use of vehicle
-Corpse taken
-Post-mortem acts

Disorganized Personality
-Low intelligence
-Sexually inadequate
-Lives alone
-Little interest in media
-Lives & works close to crimes

Question 10

what are the 4 stages when fbi profile

Answer 10

stage 1- Data assimilation
they gather information from the police reports, crime scene, pathologist reports
stage 2- crime scene classification
is it organized or disorganized
stage 3 crime reconstruction
they create hypothesis: victim behaviour, crime sequence, modus operandi
stage 4: profile generation
demographic
psych characterics
behavioural habits

Question 11

what is Statistical Profiling

Answer 11

-Simpler approach
-Same assumption&raquo_space; crime –scene information can reveal -characteristics of the offender
-Establish relationships using stats
-Not intuition
in order words it takes a whole bunch of crimes and look for patterns

Question 12

Overall the statistical approach

Answer 12

Statistical Approach to Profiling
1. Classifying
Info at crime scene»> can clusters be
formed?

2. Do clusters reveal psychological & other features of the offender?
3. Are patterns stable & consistent over time? (multiple crime scenes)

Question 13

problem with profiling?

Answer 13

1-Profilers are not psychologists. FBI agents with no psychological background
2-Weak methodology used to build the “science”
3-Lacks support of scientific community
4-Poor predictive results (poor stats)
5-Use of intuition

Question 14

why is profiling a weak method?

Answer 14

Based on John Douglas research
Only interviewed 35 serial killers
Other research
Small sample
Self-report

Question 15

list of problems in details

Answer 15

4. Poor Predictive Results
   Stats do not support useful tool
   Many cases where profile was not helpful
   4-Use of intuition
   Cannot be measured
   Cannot be researched

Question 16

Describe briefly what research has shown regarding how valid criminal profiling is.
(Pinizzotto & Finkel, 1990).

Answer 16

The trained profilers studied the materials more closely, spent more time writing their reports, wrote longer reports, and made more specific inferences about the offender’s characteristics. N