top down approach

Question 1

what is offender profiling?

Answer 1

A tool to help investigators to accurately predict likely offenders

Question 2

what is the top down approach?

Answer 2

Offenders are assigned to one of two pre-existing categories based on witness accounts and evidence from the crime scene.

Question 3

what are the two types of offenders?

Answer 3

organised and disorganised offenders.

Question 4

what is an organised offender?

Answer 4

Evidence of planning, targets victim, tends to be socially and sexually competent with higher-than-average intelligence

Question 5

what is a disorganised offender?

Answer 5

Little evidence of planning, leaves clues, tends to be socially and sexually incompetent with lower-than-average intelligence.

Question 6

what are the 4 steps in constructing an FBI profile?

Answer 6

(1) Data assimilation,
(2) crime scene classification, (3) crime reconstruction,
(4) profile generation

Question 7

what is data assimilation?

Answer 7

profiler reviews crime scene

Question 8

what is crime scene classification?

Answer 8

as either organised or disorganised

Question 9

what is crime reconstruction?

Answer 9

hypothesis in terms of sequence of events, behaviour of offender etc

Question 10

what is profile generation?

Answer 10

hypothesis about the likely offender.

Question 11

ao3 lack of theoretical foundation?

Answer 11

limitation, only uses intuition, redices credibility, no research to support decision and may lead to bias.

cp- still works, evidence in real life.

Question 12

ao3 wider application?

Answer 12

strength, covers many crimes including bulglary Meketo (2017) dev 2 new categories for bulgulars, interpersonal and opportunistic

Question 13

ao3 behavioural consistency?

Answer 13

based on modus operandi, however it may be the situation the offender is in and not personality, behavioural patterns not always there, less value.