PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Modus Operandi, Offender Profiling, Serial Killer
5 Nov 2020
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Challenges of profiling: turning crime scene info into description of offender. Not clear to extent to which this can actually be done. In some cases, easier to determine who the person is based on the context that they behaved in: personality tests can"t do this even. Aka it is very hard to characterize an individual. Cross-offense similarities must be infrequent to be of use. Intercrime distance most closely similar in pairs of burglaries: type of business, method of entry, property stolen, intra-crime behaviors were linked but not strongly enough (no significant correlations) Idea that different offenders behave differently (opposite to behavioral consistency) Offenders differ from one another in their patterns of inter-crime similarity. Says individuals who exhibit similar behaviors in a set of similar crimes will also have a set of similar characteristics: way fbi bases most of their profiling. Idea that offenders with similar crime behaviors will have similar characteristics.
