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Offender Profiling
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- 1Top-down approachUsed by the CIA.
Based on interviews with 36 criminals, where the offender is matched to a developed template of a criminal.
Data assimilation.
Classification.
Crime reconstruction.
Profile generation. - 2Organised offendersHigh level of control.
Planned crime.
High IQ.
Professional occupation. - 3Disorganised offendersSpontaneous crime.
Low IQ.
Little control.
Unskilled. - 4Top-down approach ~Positive evaluation~-Copson (1995) found that 82% of police found the approach to be useful.
- 5Top-down approach ~Negative evaluation~-Can only be used in crimes that reveal a lot about the offender.
-Canter (2004) found no evidence for the disorganised offender type.
-Kocsis et al (2002) found that the approach is common sense, as chemistry students could produce more accurate profiles than detectives only based on guesses.
-Low generalisability due to sample of offenders interviewed being small. - 6Bottom-up approachUsed by the British police.
Involves collecting information from crime scenes.
Details of the offence are matched against a statistical database. - 7Interpersonal coherenceThe offender's behaviour at the crime scene.
- 8Time and placeMay show where the offender lives.
- 9Geographical profilingShows how the offender thinks.
'Centre of gravity' shows the offender's base. - 10Bottom-up approach ~Positive evaluation~-More scientific than top-down approach due to use of statistics.
-Can be applied to more crimes than the top-down approach.
-Canter (2004) conducted 'small space analysis' and found common characteristics between offenders.
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- AS level Psychology (Forensic Psychology) Flashcards on Offender Profiling, created by Amy Woodward on 13/06/2018.
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