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
