forensics

Offender profiling: top down approach

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• offender profiling - profilers and police work to narrow down the list of likely suspects in high profile murder cases. They do this by analysing the scene and evidence to create hypotheses about the characteristics of the offender eg age, background etc.

• top down approach fbi data - interviewed 36 sexually motivated murderers and created 2 categories: organised and disorganised. If characteristics of