Definitions
Incidents in which an individual kills two or more victims in separate events
Serial murder
Victim characteristics
Availability, vulnerability, and desirability
At least three family members are killed by another family member
Family mass murder
True of false: school shootings are an epidemic
False: this statement is a myth
Case focused and tries to infer characteristics of an offender from the analysis of evidence gathered from a specific crime
Clinical approach
The killing of three or more individuals without any cooling-off period, usually at two or more locations
Spree murder
Percentage of victims who are female
75%
Fox and Levin (2002) five-categories typology include
Revenge, power, loyalty, profit, and terror
Psychological characteristics of school shooters
Social rejection, psychological problems, interest in guns and explosives, and fascination with death
Assessment practice designed to help in the identification and prediction of behavior in known individuals
Psychological profiling
Killing four or more persons at a single location with no cooling-off period in between murders
Mass murder
False: this is a myth. 21.8% of serial killers in the U.S. have been black
Mass murders are between the ages of
35-45 years old
Workplace violence
Identifying the psychological and behavioral features of persons who may commit a particular crime
Suspect-based profiling
Demonstrates that the offender very probably committed the crime without premeditation or planning
Disorganized crime scene
Psychological motives of a serial murderer
Media attention, not impulsive, and sexual gratification
An active shooter situation that takes place in public circumstances
Public mass shootings
Individuals attempt to harm other at work or their organization
Workplace aggression
Technique that can help locate where a serial offender resides, or other geographical locations that serve as a base of operations of a serial offender
Geographical profiling
The reconstruction of the emotional life, behavioral patterns, and cognitive features of a deceased person
Equivocal death analysis (EDA)
The number of female serial killers recorded in American history is
34
Characteristics of public mass shooters
White, male, act alone, frustrated, angry people
Four categories of of workplace violence
Criminal intent, customer/client/patients, coworker, and personal
Process of identifying personality traits, behavioral patterns, geographic habits, cognitive tendencies, and demographic features of an unknown offender based on characteristics of the crime