CRIM 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Spree, Mass Murder, Homicide
28 Feb 2017
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Case focused and ties to information characteristics of an offender from analysis of evidence gathered from a specific crime. Concentrates on data base gathered from groups of offenders who have committed similar crimes. Assessment practice designed to help in the identification and prediction of behaviour in common individuals. Vase majority of social killings fail to qualify as seriously mentally disordered. Serial offenders tend to prefer more hands on killing through strangulation or beating while single victim offenders prefer guns. Serial homicide offenders exhibit more planning by moving the victim"s body from the location to another location; single victim offenders tend to be less skillful in disposing of the body. Killing of 3 or more individuals without a cooling off period, usually at 2 or more locations. Involves killing 4 or more person out a single location wihtout a cooling off. An individual kills 2 or more victims in seperate events. Most female serial killers are husbands former husbands or suitors.
