Offender Profiling
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- Created on: 19-05-15 16:04
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- Offender Profiling
- Key Terms
- Profiling
- Method for helping police identify the offender, nature of the crime & how it is carried out
- Unstructured Interview
- Interviews with no pre- determined questions
- Dichotomy
- Dividing things into 2 distinct categories
- Multi- Dimensional Scaling
- Statistical technique designed to analyse relationships between several variables. Each variable is a given value
- Modus Operandi
- A way of working. The criminals 'signature'
- Profiling
- Origins of Offender Profiling
- Go back as far as Jack the Ripper
- Formal profiles go back as far as Lange's profile of Hitler & Howard's characteristics of a Nazi war criminal
- James Brussel
- Problems
- Based on common sense about bombings at the time...
- Errors in letters sent to police hinted that the bomber was not born in the USA
- Most Eastern Europeans are Roman Catholics & tended to live in Connecticut or West Chester
- Bombing associated with paranoid disorders which peak at 40-50
- Bombs tended to be an Eastern European protest strategy
- Based on common sense about bombings at the time...
- New York Bomber Profile
- Eastern European & Roman Catholic
- Likely wears buttoned up double breasted suit
- Living in Connecticut or West Chester with Sister or Maiden Aunt
- Male high school graduate aged 40-50
- Bombers actual description
- Wearing double breasted suit when arrested
- Living in Connecticut with 2 older sisters
- 54
- Polish (therefore Slavic & Roman Catholic)
- 1st profile used in an investigation
- Problems
- Key Terms
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