PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Child Abduction, George Metesky, Spree
7 Feb 2015
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Make estimates of how likely offender is to increase frequency/violence of acts: evaluate suspect possessions: help understand what those possessions mean to him, develop interrogation strategies, show links between crimes, supportive trial testimony. Basic assumptions of profiling: behavioural consistency, behavioural differentiation, homology. Behavioural differentiation: offenders differ from on another in their patterns of inter-crime similarity, helps discriminate between the crimes of offender a and offender b, evidence unclear but plausible. Profile of new york bomber (dr. james brussel: based on bomb construction and letters bomber had sent to police, based on profile identified george metesky accurately. Founded in 1972: early profilers: robert ressler, roy hazelwood, john douglas, eastern (washington), western (la, subgroup of national centre for analysis of violent crime, other subgroups: casmirc (child abduction), vicap, media depiction: silence of the lambs, criminal minds. Stage 1: profiling inputs: crime scene information, victimology, police reports, photographs.
