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• Offender Profiling - also known as criminal profiling, a behavioural and analytical tool that is intended to help investigate and accurately predict/profile the characteristics of unknown criminals.
• Organised offender - an offender who shows evidence of planning and a target victim. They tend to be socially comfortable with a high intelligence, leaving very few clues.
• Disorganised offender - an offender who shows little evidence of planning, leaving clues behind. They tend to be socially awkward. Usually crimes of opportunity as they require little planning. They have a lower than average intelligence.
• Data assimilation - all information available in regard to the crime scene, victim and witnesses are examined. This may include photographs of the crime scene, autopsy reports, victim profiles, police reports and victim statements.
• Crime scene reconstruction - Hypothesis: sequence of events/behaviour of victim and behaviour of offender.
• Profile generation - Hypothesis relating to the offender (demographics, physical characteristics, behaviour).
• Interpersonal - The offender knows the victim and takes something of significance.
• Opportunistic - Inexperience and young