Top-Down Profiling

Question 1

Offender profiling

Answer 1

A behavioural and analytical tool that is intended to help investigators accurately
Offender profiling
predict and profile the characteristics of unknown criminals

Question 2

Top-down profiling

Answer 2

Profiers start with a pre-established typology and work down in order to assign
Top-down profiling
offenders to one of two categories based on witness accounts and evidence from the crime scene

Question 3

Organised offender

Answer 3

An offender who shows evidence of planning, targets the victim, and tends to be
socially and sexually competent, with higher-than-average intelligence.

Question 4

Disorganised offender

Answer 4

An offender who shows little evidence of planning, leaves clues and tends to be socially and sexually incompetent, with lower-than-average intelligence.