Offender profiling

• What is offender profiling?

  A behavioural and analytical tool that is intended to help investigator is to accurately predict and profile the characteristics of unknown criminals
• when was the top down approach created?

  made by the FBI in 1970’s
• how did the FBI create the top-down approach?

  they drew data gathered from in depth interviews with 36 sexually motivated murderers including Ted Bundy and Charles manson
• how did the top down approach categorised data?

  organised and disorganised crimes
• what happens if evidence found at the crime scene matched a category?

  means that the other characteristics can be predicted to be likely from that category
• what is an organised criminal?

  Planned in advance, high controlled, above average intelligence, do not leave evidence, socially and sexually confident, usually married and have children
• what is a disorganised criminal?

  little planning, spontaneous, lack of control, below average IQ, history of sexual dysfunction or failed relationships, tend to live alone and close to crime scene
• what type of criminal was ted bundy?

  organised criminal
• Why was ted bundy an organised criminal?

  He was handsome,charming and intelligent, he organised his crimes and left little evidence
• what is step one of constructing an FBI profile?

  data assmilation, the profiler reviews evidence such as crime scene photos, pathology reports, witness reports etc
• what is step 2 of constructing an FBI profile?

  crime scene classification, if the crime is either organised or disorganised
• what is step 3 of constructing a FBI profile?

  hypotheses in terms of the sequencing of events, behaviour of victims etc
• what is step 4 of a FBI profile?

  profile generalisation, a hypothesis related to the offender