What are the 2 types of offenders distinguished by Canter?
Organised/disorganised
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Describe an organised murder scene
Planned, victim is a stranger, control used including restraints, aggression before, body hidden or moved, weapon/evidence absent.
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Describe a disorganised murder scene
Spontaneous, victim known, little control, sexual acts before death, body not hidden, evidence present.
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Describe an organised offender
Leads an ordered life and kills after a critical event. Actions are planned and they are likely to bring weapons and restraints. Average/high intelligence and employed.
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Describe a disorganised offender
More likely to have committed crime in a moment of passion. No evidence of pre-planning, likely to leave evidence e.g. weapon, blood e.t.c. More likely to be unemployed.
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What was Canter's aim?
To test the reliability of organised/disorganised classification of killers in offender profiling.
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Describe the procedure of Canter's top-down typology research
Content analysis of 100 cases of serial killers from the USA. 3rd crime committed by each serial killer was analysed using The Crime Classification Manual as either organised or disorganised.
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What were the results found about organised/disorganised?
Twice as many disorganised as organised crime-scenes were identified.
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How were the bodies found?
In 70% of cases, the body was concealed, in 75% of the cases, sexual activity occurred.
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What did further analysis do?
Further analysis failed to reveal any significant differences between organised and disorganised variables.
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What did Canter conclude?
Concluded that instead of there being a distinction between 2 types of serial murder, all of the crimes had to have an organised element to them as they hadn't been caught after 3 killings.
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What did Canter conclude it would be better to look at?
Concluded it would be better to look at personality variables
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What was no evidence found for?
No evidence for the organised/disorganised typology.
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What are all serial killer likely to exhibit?
Likely to exhibit some aspects of organised and disorganised but differences between them are more likely differences in the disorganised variables that they exhibit.
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Card 2
Front
Describe an organised murder scene
Back
Planned, victim is a stranger, control used including restraints, aggression before, body hidden or moved, weapon/evidence absent.
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