offender profiling

Top down approach=typology approach

profiles start with categorising criminal into one of two types of offender-organis3d or disorganised.

Interviews with sexually motivated crimes some murder and arson

Mixed offeneder was also later added .

Organised=hides evidence and body- high IQ and good social skills

Disorganised=leaves evidence and body -low IQ and low social skills

1-data assimilation= profiler reviews eveudenxe eg crime scene and reports

2clasification =organised or dis

3= crime reconstruction hypothesis = crime sequence of events, set up of crime scene.

4=present hypothesis of the likely offender eg age gender

Canter conducted research that’d found disorganised characteristic were much rarer in serial killers.doesmr support theory how ever mixed offender.

Too simplistic and instead it’s a continuum not one or other

Lack of generalised

Based on self reports

90% of us police in a qu3tionare said they would use again improving credibility of the method however not representative of entire crim pop

Bottom up