PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Behavioral Analysis Unit, David Canter, Mass Murder
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Database gathered from groups of offenders who have committed: actuarial approach similar crimes or engaged in similar incidents. Based on how groups of offenders who have committed similar crimes have acted in the past: base rates % of occurrences of a particular beh within the general population of similar cases (ie. 35% of adults who kill children under 12 are left-handed: psychological profiling. Identification and prediction of behavior in known individuals: positive and negative characteristics, narrows down a large group of candidate suspects. Risk assessment actuarial stats, you can come up w a prob for how likely that ppl in that group (share characteristics) to commit a violent crime: suspect-based profiling (have been identified) Identifying the psychological and behavioral features of persons who. Prospective profiling looking to the future may commit a particular crime (cid:523)ie. someone who(cid:495)s a pedo and works in a daycare (cid:524); you try to put pieces together.
