Geographic Mapping/Profiling
An area with a higher-than-average number of criminal events
What is a crime hot spot?
This type of offender travel from their home into a separate area to offend
What is the commuter?
This time period reflects the peak of serial murder.
What is the 1970s-1980s?
This system was created to help speed up the response to child abduction.
What is the AMBER Alert System?
Across cultures, this is the most commonly reported subjective cue of lying
This type of geographic offender/offending pattern is most associated with circle theory.
What is the marauder?
This computer program is designed to indicate the likelihood of an offender living in a specific location.
What is Dragnet?
This offender usually uses discrete methods of killing and tends to target helpless victims.
What is a female serial killer?
Studies from the 1980's estimated this type of crime claims more than 5000 victims a year.
What is serial murder
This form of profiling is conducted after a person's death to determine their mental state and circumstances prior to death.
What is the psychological autopsy?
This concept refers to notion that the farther the distance from home, the less likely the offender will commit a crime
What is distance decay?
This theoretical foundation argues that crime occurs through a cost-benefit analysis.
What is Rational Choice Theory?
This personality disorder is highly prevalent among serial homicide offenders.
What is psychopathy?
Crime scene behaviors have shown to be a reliable and objective way of identifying this paraphilic disorder.
What is sexual sadism?
This type of question puts a higher cognitive load on the suspect and can help determine if they are lying.
This concept refers to the geographic areas that are part of an offender's routine activities and that they have some knowledge about.
What is the "awareness space"?
This geographic hunting pattern refers offenders who do not specifically search for victims but encounter them during daily activities.
What is the Troller?
This offender is predominantly unmarried, almost 1/3rd suffer from a sexual problem, and they are likely to move frequently.
What is a child abductor?
This type of serial killer typically operates based on what they believe to be directives for God or some other higher authority.
What is the visionary type?
The Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) is a government tool used to detect this facial cue.
What is a micro-expression?
The most important prediction criterion for determining the effectiveness of profiling software.
What is the top profile area?
This victim act method involves enticing a victim to a location and then attacking.
What is the Ambusher?
This type of offender targets victims according to criteria related to their deviant fantasies and are at a high risk for reoffending.
What is sadistic sexual offenders?
This type of burglary offender always brings/uses a weapon, often destroys/removes forensic evidence and protects their identity, and always controls their victim.
What is the expert sexual burglary offender?
This standard indicates that scientific knowledge must be gathered using scientific techniques that are "generally accepted" in the field.
What is the Frye Standard?