Top-down approach to offender profiling
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 10-06-19 09:09
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- The top-down approach
- Decision-making tools
- 1) Murder type (isolated or mass)
- 2) Primary intent (deliberate, pre-meditated or not)
- 3) Victim risk (vulnerability)
- 4) Offender risk (risk taken when committing crime)
- 5) Escalation (pre-empt future crimes)
- 6) Time factors (identify routine of offender)
- 7) Location factors
- Typology
- Organised
- Highly intelligent, socially competent, aggressive
- Carefully planned crime with successful cover-up of weapon/ victim
- Disorganised
- Low intelligence, socially and sexually inept
- Messy crime scene with lots of forensic evidence
- Organised
- Case study (Arthur Shawcross)
- Profile created was majorly correct, only age was incorrect
- Predicted he would return to the body, able to arrest him then
- Demonstrates effectiveness of top-down
- Evaluation
- Universal as been adopted by many foreign law enforcement agencies
- Reductionist as only categorises criminals in two ways
- Allows police to predict next actions
- Restricted applicability as only used in murder and **** offences
- Decision-making tools
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