Forensic Psychology

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Extraversion
Sociable and crave excitement and change, and thus can become bored easily. They tend to be carefree, optimistic and impulsive.
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Neuroticism
Tend to be anxious, worrying and moody. They are overly emothional and find it difficult to calm down once upset.
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Psychoticism
Lacking in empathy, cruel, a loner, aggressive and troublesome.
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Official Statistics
Numerical quantative data that is gathered by the goverment. This information is based on the total number of crimes reported to the police or when the police dicover a crime
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Victim Survey
Record peoples experiences of crime over a specific period of time. The survey asks people to document the crimes they had experienced in the past year. A sample of 50,000 households are randomly selected each year. A smaller sample of 10-15 year old
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Offender Survey
This is where offenders are questioned. Individuals volunteer the numberof crimes they have commited. They tend to target groups which are seen as more likely offenders such as, those with previous convictions.
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Organised Crime
Tends to be planned and the victim is specifically targeted, the body is often transported from the scene, the weapon is usually hidden and violent fantasies may be acyed out on the victim.Such offenders are generally high in intelligence
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Disorganised Crime
Tend to be unplanned crimes, random selection of victim, offeneder likely to engange very little with the victim and sexual acts are performed after death on the body. The crime scene is likely to contain many clues such as blood from the offender
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6 Main Stages - 1 Profile Inputs
The data collected at this stage includes a description of the crime scene, background info about the victim and details of the crime itself. All info, even if it appears trivial, should be included. Possible suspects should not be considered.
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6 Main Stages - 2 Decision Process Models
The profiler starts to make decisions about the data and organises it into meaningful patterns. Some of the following issues are considered; - murder type: mass, spree or serial murders
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6 Main Stages - 3 Crime Assessment
Based on the data collected, the crime is classified as organised or disorganised
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6 main Stages - 4 Criminal Profile
A profile is now constructed of the offender which includes hypotheses about their likely background habits and beliefs of the offender. The description is used to work out a strategy for the investigation to help catch the offender
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6 Main Stages - 5 Crime Assessment
A written report is given to the investigatory agency and persons matching the profiles are evaluated. If new evidence is generated and/no suspect is identified, then the process goes back to step 2
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6 Main Stages - 6 Apprehension
If a suspect is apprehended, the entire profile generating process is reviewed to check that at each stage the conclusions made were legitimate
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Interpersonal Coherence
The behaviour of the offender at the time of the crime will be comparable to what they're like in everyday life. Degrees of violence used in violent crime, especially ****, may reflect *** the criminal treats women in his non-criminal life
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Forensic Awareness
The idea that certain behaviours may reveal an awareness of particular police techniques and past experience.
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Smallest Space Analysis
A statistical technique developed by Canter. The data obtained about many crime scenes and offender characteristics are correlated so that most common connections can be identified.
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Criminalised Geographical Targeting
A computerised system develpoed by Rossmo Formula, produces a three dimentional map displaying spatical data relevant to the time distance and movement to and from the crime scene
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Tend to be anxious, worrying and moody. They are overly emothional and find it difficult to calm down once upset.

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Neuroticism

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Lacking in empathy, cruel, a loner, aggressive and troublesome.

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Numerical quantative data that is gathered by the goverment. This information is based on the total number of crimes reported to the police or when the police dicover a crime

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Record peoples experiences of crime over a specific period of time. The survey asks people to document the crimes they had experienced in the past year. A sample of 50,000 households are randomly selected each year. A smaller sample of 10-15 year old

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