the top- down approach

Question 1

What is the approach?

Answer 1

Categorising criminals into disorganised and organised crimes using data.

Question 2

What is an organised crime?

Answer 2

Planned, MO, have a ‘type’ of victim, controlled and precise, no clues. Most likely married and live with children with a high IQ.

Question 3

What is a disorganised crime?

Answer 3

Spontaneous, impulsive, low control, low IQ, history of sexual dysfunction, lives alone and close to where the crime was.

Question 4

4 stages of the FBI profile?

Answer 4

1. data assimilation
2. crime scene classification
   3.crime reconstruction
3. profile generation

Question 5

2 strengths of this theory?

Answer 5

+ Cater gathered support for classification. (analysed 100 serial killers using smallest space analysis and found that classification or organisation was valid.
+ can be adapted to other crimes, like burglary, so it has a wider application than initially assumed.

Question 6

2 weaknesses of this theory?

Answer 6

• The organised/disorganised category is more of a contiunum.
• Evidence has a small sample and lacks population validity, so it is not scientific.