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arabera Michaela Garrett 12 years ago

2012

Criminal Proflining - Alternative Methods of Criminal Profiling

The text discusses various methodologies used in criminal profiling, each with unique perspectives and tools. One significant approach is the FBI's Criminal Investigative Analysis, which categorizes offenders as organized or disorganized based on their crime scenes.

Criminal Proflining - Alternative Methods of Criminal Profiling

Alternative Methods of Criminal Profling

Organized/Disorganized Typology

FBI's binary crime scene and offender classification system
Disorganized Offenders

spontaneous

Organized Offenders

planned

Geographic Profiling

Offenders home or other locations of familiarity can be determined from cime locations
Based on 3 Theories

1) Least effort principle

2) Distance decay

3) The circle theory

Investigative Psychology

Five Factor Model that reflects an offender's past and present

1) Interpersonal coherence

2) Significance of time and place

3) Criminal characteristics

4) Criminal career

5) Forensic awareness

Nomothetic

examing groups and universal laws
The study of the abstract

Diagnostic Evaluations

Services offered by medical and mental health professionals

Criminal Investigative Analysis

FBI's tern from ciminal profling
Uses organized/disorganized dichotomy

Idiographic

examining individuals and their actual qualities
Study of the concrete