Offender profiling: The top-down approach- A01
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- Created on: 28-09-21 16:59
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- Offender profiling: The top-down approach
- Originated in the United States as a result of work carried out by the FBI in the 1970s.
- The FBI’s Behavioural Science Unit drew upon data gathered from the interviews with 36 sexually motivated serial killers, eg Ted Bundy and Charles Manson.
- Offender profilers who use this method will match what is known about the crime and the offender to a pre-existing template that the FBI developed.
- Organised vs Disorganised
- This distinction is based on their modus operandi (MO)
- Organised
- Shows evidence of having planned the crime in advance
- Victim is deliberately targeted
- High degree of control
- leaves little evidence behind
- Tend to have above average intelligence
- In a skilled proffession
- Socially and sexually competent
- Usually married and has children
- Disorgansied
- Shows little evidence of planning
- Body is left at the scene
- very little control
- lover than average IQ
- in an unskilled job or is unemployed
- sexually dysfunctional
- failed relationships
- tend to live alone
- live/work close by to where the offence took place
- Constructing
an FBI profile
- 1. Data assimilation- profiler reviews evidence
- 2. Crime scene classification- organised/disorganised
- 3. Crime reconstruction- hypotheses in terms of sequence of events
- 4. Profile generation- hypothesis related to the likely offender
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