Top Down Apporch For Offender Profiling Flashcards
what is top down apporach?
profilers stsrt with pre-established typolpogy and work on lower levels to assign offender into caegoriey based on evidence at the crime scene
What is offender profiling?
Investigative tool used to solve a crime by police
Why is it useful?
Helps narrow down list of suspects
What do professional profilers do?
They analyse the crime scene and preduct about the characteristics the offender could have
What kind of factors would professional profilers look into when analysing a crime scene?
-age
-background
Where did offender profiling o originate from and what did it result to?
Originated from America from fbi —>
Interviewed 36 sexually motivated killers eg ted bundy
What did the interviews lead to ?
Categories based on interviews separated killers into organisers and disorganised criminals
What was the reason of these two categories of offenders?
Helped categorise the different ways in which criminals carried out the crime
What are sown examples of organised killers?
-usually married with kids
-have a type
-lack of evidence or clues
-Above average Intelligence
What are some examples of disprganised offenders?
-history of failed relationships
-untidy lots of evidence
- below average intelligence
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who is an an example of a organsied offender and explain why
ted bundy
-graduated from law school
-had a girlired
-organised his crime
-had a type
who is an example fo a disorganised offender and why?
chase
-he lived alome
-no girlfiriend
-sponatneous
what are the the four stages of making an fbi prodile ?
- data assimilaiton
2.crime scene classificatiilon - crime reconstcuction
- profile genaration
what is data assimilation?
reveiwing evidence eg. photos, witness reports etc
whta is crime scene classification?
classifting whther crime is organised or disorganised crime
