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what is profiling

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  • collection of related techniques
    -> psych profiling
    -> criminal personality profiling
    -> criminal behavior profiling
    -> invetigative profiling
    -> criminal invetigative analysis
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what is the goal of profiling?

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describe perpetrator to narrow investigative field

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what are the sources of info?

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  • autopsy results
  • victim verbal reports
  • examination of crime scenes/photos
    -> psych profiling only = test and interview data
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what does criminal profiling rely on?

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intuition

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when was criminal profiling first used?

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  • US intelligence during WW2
  • predict military behavior of known enemy officers
  • resurrected by FBI in 70’s
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what could we do with the WW2 strategy?

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case-linkage analysis
-> psych, historical, behavioral features of criminal

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what is the best use of criminal profiling?

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  • direct attention of investigators at most likely suspects
  • interpreting personality profile
  • as databases increase in content, process continues to refine and improve
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where is criminal profiling mainly used?

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large law enforcement agencies
- FBI, RCMP

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describe criminal profiling

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  • seldom points to specific person
  • fairly general assertions
  • age, gender, race, lvl of ed, marital status, degree of future risk typical assertions made by profilers (knowledge based judgements)
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what does criminal profiling work best for?

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  • ill individuals and highly sadistic ones
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what are comp models based on?

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geographic location
- crime-linkage analysis still important

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bayes theorem

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  • joint probability
  • number of unusual features
  • predictability over time
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who is profiling applied to?

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  • murderers
  • rapists
  • internet sex offender
  • com network intruders
  • thieves
  • arsonists
  • corporate and security fraud
  • terrorists
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does criminal profiling work?

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70% of police psych are uncomfy
- more an art

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how many cases did Holmes say are solved?

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< 50%
- tendency to reserve profiling resources to most challenging cases (not solvable)
- min 3 cases for most use

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Pinizotto and Finkel

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  • compared accuracy of:
    trained fbi profilers
    police detectives
    non-forensic psych
    uni undergrad
    -» NOT SIGNIFICANT -> trained only did slightly better with sex offenders but no better with violent
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RPE

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perp dead
scene yes
historical

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psych profiling

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perp yes
scene yes
info: historical and psych measurement

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geographical profiling

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perp: no
scene: location
info: type and location

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crime scene profiling

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perp: no
scene: yes
info: scene details

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what is RPE?

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reconstructive psychological eval
- post mortem description based on known offender
- intended to add profiling database
- diverse backgrounds make ID of common features difficult
- attempt to address dynamic features (socially and psychologically)

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what does psychological profiling begin with?

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known perpetrator

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what is psych profiling thought of as?

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assessment part of court-ordered report
- findings added to database

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what is critical to psych profiling?

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test selection

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murphy and peters MMPI test results
failed to discriminate between sexual offenders and non sex offenders - PPG did far better (penile test) - one relevant test > many irrelevant tests
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what did Rossmo create?
geoprofile - based on analysis and prediction of movement patterns - high stats
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what is DDF based on Journey to crime model?
approach to spatial behavior analysis yields a jeopardy surface superimposed on topogrpahic map
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what is the probability of DDF?
based on minimizing the mean distance from all known crime sites attributed to offender
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what is the probability of offending based on distance from home?
the further away from "home" the less crime committed - choose location reasonably close to home but not too close
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why is a map rasterized?
calculates the total distance from each crime site to every possible point on map - actual formula incorporates DDF and is algebraically sophisitcated - spatial behavior analysis
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crime site locations
- place dots and eat dot is invetigated using linkage analysis to see if it is comitted by same person - narrowing the filed so evidence narrows in - less than 50% cases solved
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jeopardy surface -
geothermal on top of a map
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geoprofile
- the land is not elevated - the further away the lower the probability of finding the offender - demographic feathures -
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what were Rossmo's 2 criteria?
- 3 yr investigating interpersonal crime - superior investigative skill
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what is Canter's circle hypothesis?
serial offender's home location most likely to be located within circle defined diametrically by 2 most distant crime scenes
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Snook experiment
instructed vs non - dragnet printouts - accuracy about the same - dragnet did better in phase 1 - experiment did better than control in phase 2
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what is the conclusion about Snook
biggest factor is knowledge about circle and ddv
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what are the 3 crime scene features
- modus operandi - signature - staging
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MO
way the violent act was committed - time, place, weapon, victim characteristics, type, location, method of entry - refined over time and with practice - stable over time - being form patterns and develop bad habits and get sloppy
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signature
features extra to crime - highly ritualized - pattern of mutilation or property destruction, take trophies, leave smth ebhind, notes, postion of obdy, burn of body or building - may provide more info than unstable MO - operational characteristics important for case linkage
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staging
alteration made to crime scene after crime was committed - may not be done by assailant - protect dignity of victim - offender may attempt to psych undo or reverse act
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what are crime scenes classified as?
organized mixed disorganized
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organized
evidence of planning - reduce chances of deterction - greater victim characteristics - quite cocky -> abduction, murder, disposal not in same - higgher chance if there is a camera watching yoy
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disorganized
refelcts work of more impulsive, less intelligent - anger or aroused - no movement of evidence from crime scene - victims chosen more randomly
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mixed
both features - poorly planned crime fell apart
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turvey
dichotomy is invalid scenes along continuum
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what features are considered?
- point of contact - primary scene - secondary scene -> intermediate, dumpsite/disposal scene
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**methods of approach
- refers to rapists - reveal info about perpetrator's relationship to victim
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what are the 3 methods?
blitz surprise con
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blitz
limits opportunity to work out a defense - without warning and they are unknown to you - no conning, seduction or luring, approach and surprise
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surprise
laying in wait knowledge of schedule turn 2nd degree into first - type in mind - situational awareness
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con
ted bundy employs a ruse - repeated contacts over time
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hunter
goes out and gets victim fairly close to come - DDV adn circle 31.6%
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poacher**
goes into another town or city not operating from home - same spot bc they think that they are far away enough so they are same
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troller
crimes of opportunity - victim encoutnered while other usually routine tasks - perpetual state of preparedness
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trapper
lure/trick victims to location of control
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attack strategies
raptor stalker ambusher
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raprt
attack immediate ipon location of victim - most serial predators
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stalker
watches follows waits to catch off0guard
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ambusher
works close to home or another prepared and familar location
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motives
revenge - prior association financial - investment fraud jealous power- sexual offender, lose efficacy and power, illegitiamte non-sadistic sexual grati - no pain sadistic sex grat - pain insanity - legal and some planning aspect compromised self-defence - think line, resonable degree of force

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