top down approach
- Created by: Bethany Cooling
- Created on: 31-05-18 19:28
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- Offender Profiling: Top-Down Approach
- Offender Profiling
- Aims to narrow the field of enquiry and list of likely suspects
- Profilers work alongside the police, often in murder cases etc
- Scene and evidence are analysed to generate hypothesis about probable character traits of the offender
- Top-Down Approach
- Match what is known about the crime and the pre-existing template the FBI developed
- Murderers or rapists are classified in two categories
- Organised
- Disorganised
- Organised
- Evidence of planning the crime
- Victim is deliberately targetted
- May have a 'type'
- Maintaining a high degree of control during the crime
- Leaving very little evidence at the scene
- Tending to be above average intelligence
- Skilled or professional job
- Married and have children
- Evidence of planning the crime
- Disorganised
- Showing little evidence of planning; may have been spontaneous
- Crime scene reflects the impulsive nature of the act
- Body still at the scene
- Evidence of little control
- Lower IQ
- History of failed relationships
- FBI Profile Construction
- 1) Data assimilation - review of the evidence
- 2) Crime scene classification - organised or disorganised
- 3) Crime Reconstruction - generation of hypothesis about the behaviours and events
- 4) Profile generation - generation of hypothesis about the offender e.g. background
- Offender Profiling
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