PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aileen Wuornos, Reid Technique, Concordia University Massacre
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If you found a number of murders committed and each victim had a ring in their mouth, then it"s suspected to be a highly unusual type of behaviour. All of those crimes were probably committed by the same person because of the specificity and uniqueness of the characteristic of the crime scene. Evidence gathered from single crimes or multiple crimes if there is reason to believe that they were committed by the same person. Since it"s based on experience and training, it"s not overly objective. This approach isn"t based on gut, intuition or experience but on databases that have been constructed looking at characteristics of groups of offenders who have committed similar crimes. They"re based on how groups of offenders who have committed similar crimes have acted in the past. Base rate is the percentage of occurrences of a particular behaviour from within the general population of similar cases.
