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Being viewed as a suspect in a particular crime on the basis of a subset of markers that include race and/or religion. Using race as indicator of who might be engaged in criminal activity.

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Racial Profiling

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Location from where attacks might be launched.

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Anchor points

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Canadian government agencies were afforded more tools and power to combat terrorism. For instance, law enforcement agents could arrest suspected terrorists without a warrant and detain them for an indefinite period of time.

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Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)

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Stresses role of offering guidance to investigators on how to use media, questions that may be asked in police interviews with suspects, and whether a crime might be part of a series of crimes.

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Behavioural Investigative Advice (BIA)

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Area around home of a criminal where they are less likely to commit crimes

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Buffer Zone

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Process of determining whether 2 or more crimes were committed by the same person.

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Case Linkage

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Impulsive and choose victims at random, act from sudden rage, or commands to kill from voices. Likely to use any weapon available, to leave weapon at scene, and to use body for sexual purposes.

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Disorganized Killers

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The probability of attack decreases as the distance from past crime scene locations increases.

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Distance Decay

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Suggests where to place stakeouts, set traps, and find potential witnesses based on a computerized analysis of past serial crimes — particularly crime scenes, but also places where bodies have been dumped or witnesses have spotted suspicious activities.

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Geographic Profiling

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Kills others for thrills and take sadistic sexual pleasure in the torture of their victims.

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Hedonistic Types

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Inability of law enforcement agencies across different jurisdictions to note that the crimes committed in their respective jurisdictions may in fact be linked

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Linkage Blindness

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Statistical procedure that compiles overall findings from a large group of related research studies.

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Meta-Analysis

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Kill people they believe are evil. Less likely to be psychotic (one killed abortion doctors).

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Mission-Oriented Types

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Careful selection of victim and planning what they will do. Exercise patience and self-control by waiting before and cleaning up evidence after. Use more elaborate rituals involving torture and dismembering.

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Organized Killers

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Get satisfaction from victim capture and control before killing.

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Power-Oriented Types

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Provides information that is useful in assessing whether or not a person committed a crime

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Probative Evidence

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Drawing inferences about criminal’s personality, behavior, motivation, demographics based on crime scene and other evidence.

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Criminal investigative analysis / Profiling

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Using race as indicator of who might be engaged in criminal activity. Being viewed as a suspect in a particular crime on the basis of a subset of markers that include race and/or religion.

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Racial Profiling

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murderers who kill 2 or more people in separate events, with a cooling-off period between murders.

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Serial Killers

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The distinctive, personal aspect of the crime that presumably reveals the personality of the killer

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Signature Aspect of the Crime

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Diverts focus from plausible suspects because they do not fit the profile.

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Tunnel Vision

22
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Two tools used by Canadian police officers to assist them in the capture of serial criminals.

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  1. ViCLAS: Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System
  2. geographic profiling / criminal spatial mapping