Top Down Profiling Flashcards
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Offender profiling
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A behavioural and analytical tool that is intended to help investigations accurately predict and profile the characteristics of unknown criminals.
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Top down profiling
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Profilers start with a pre-established typology and work down in order to assign offenders to one of two categories based on witness accounts and evidence from the crime scene.
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Organised offender
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An offender who shows evidence of planning, targets the victim, and tends to be socially and sexually competent, with higher-than average intelligence.
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Disorganised offender
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An offender who shows little evidence of planning, leaves clues and tends to be socially and sexually incompetent, with lower-than-average intelligence.
