Crime Scene
Profiling
Profiling
The behavioral science unit of the FBI used crime scene profiling during its early development for cases which involved this.
What are serial homicide or serial rape?
It is sometimes called criminal profiling, offender profiling, crime scene analysis, behavioral analysis, or criminal investigative analysis.
What is Crime Scene Profiling?
The main difference between serial murders and other multiple murders.
Investigations of school shooters have often found these two characteristics emerge.
What are peer rejection and social rejection?
The two approaches that are used to analyze people, crime scenes or the incident in an attempt to profile the perpetrator.
What are clinical and actuarial approaches?
Anything that goes beyond what is necessary to commit the crime is called this.
What is personation?
The two basic approaches used in psychological profiling.
What are threat assessment and risk assessment?
Serial killers generally select victims based on these 3 factors.
What are availability, vulnerability and desirability?
Daniels and Page study found four common themes in schools where school shooting occurred: inflexible culture, inequitable discipline, _______, and _______.
What are tolerance of disrespectful behavior and a code of silence?
A behavioral pattern that the offender learns as he or she gains experience in committing the offense.
What is modis operandi (MO)?
Often associated with autoeroticism this refers to a crime scene being altered.
What is Staging?
This type of profiling is built on the systematic collection of behavioral, personality, cognitive and demographic data on previous offenders who committed similar crimes.
What is Suspect-based profiling?
A term not useful for the psychological study of multiple murders but depicts a single event where a killer kills more than once at several locations.
What is a Spree Murder?
The general term encompassing all forms of behavior by which individuals attempt to harm others at work or their organizations.
What is workplace aggression?
Refers to the application of psychological research and principles to the investigation of criminal behavior.
What is Investigative Psychology?
This type of crime scene altering reflect the offender's emotions related to the death.
This type of profiling tries to identify the geographical territory the offender knows well, feels most comfortable in and prefers to take victims in.
What is Geographical Profiling?
This type of multiple murder has historically been classified into two categories: classical and family.
What is Mass Murder?
Refers to incidents in which the offender intends to cause serious physical or bodily harm to an individual or individuals within an organization or to the organization itself.
What is workplace violence?
One flaw in profiling is the assumption that human behavior is _____.
What is Consistent?
It is suggested that the patterns of behavior described as organized, disorganized and mixed were better viewed as a ______ as opposed to a _____.
What is Continuum and Dichotomy?
The reconstruction of of the emotional life, behavioral patterns, and cognitive features of a deceased person.
What is Equivocal Death Analysis (EDA)?
These researchers proposed a five category typology based on the motivations for mass killings: revenge, power, loyalty, profit and terror.
Who are James Alan Fox and Jack Levin?
These are the four categories of workplace violence as outline by OSHA.
What are criminal intent, customer/client/patient, coworker and personal?
The interpretation of ambiguous information from police reports to fit biases.
What is Confirmation Bias?