PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Factor Analysis, Lee Boyd Malvo, Firefighter

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CC3
• Professor: Richard B Day

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An array of actions taken by the offender in the context of a crime. Canter wants to know which actions tend to occur together in the course of a crime. Believed we can calculator correlations between these various aspects of an offender"s behavior. Separates ssa into three quadrants to identify which events correlate most to different interpersonal narratives (victim as person, vehicle and object: look at slide, theoretical, nothing scientific about it. We see four categories: sexual control, mutilation, plunder, execution. Hicks and sales (2006): critique of canter: lacks conceptual clarity. Inconsistency within themes: unverifiable assertions re inner narratives. We cannot know the interpersonal narrative of the offender 100: ssa inappropriate. No factors indicated by analysis: aka if we performed a factor analysis on canter"s model, i won"t be able to do this. It only graphically depicts the relations between the events without doing an analysis about what factors might group things together. An unscientific approach to dividing up offenders.