LAWE 233 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Disorganized Crime, Organized Crime, Victimology
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Used to identify an unknown perpetrator by developing information on the type of person to look for based on the analysis of certain features and characteristics of the crime. Psychological profiling has been around for a long time but it gained attention in the late 1970s with the creation of the behavioral science. A technique for identifying the major behavioral traits of an individual based upon the analysis of the crime. Useful for reducing the number of suspects based. A crime reflects the characteristics of the offender. Offenders with similar criminal behavior exhibit similar characteristics (homology assumption) A process of mapping the characteristics of offenders of previous solved crimes onto offenders of unsolved crimes (essentially an educated guess) Classify the crime scene as organized or disorganized. Helps to provide a profile of a likely offender at the same time. Characteristics of offenders who have committed this crime in the past. Provide a description of the overt characteristics of the perpetrator.
