Offender profiling AO1 and AO2
- Created by: hansolo
- Created on: 10-01-15 09:29
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- Offender profiling
- A01
- Typo
- Rachel Nickell- Paul Britton-arrest wrong man(Colin Stagg) while killer did it again. Let CS go-shows problems in police over relevance and confidence in profiling techniques
- Behavioural evidence left at crime scene identify type person likely commit crime. broadly categorised two groups-organised + dis. Crime scene shows category that goes on to category of offender. e.g. dis-likely to have low intelligence etc.
- Geo
- John Duffy-David Canter was asked to help and create a psychological profile, he used the locations of attacks to narrow down pool of suspects- must know railway well-JD arrested
- It attempts to make predictions about offenders based on location + timing of attack. mental mind map-internal representation of world criminal lives-a criminals offences will be influenced by this.
- Typo
- A02
- Typological
- - assumes personality is stable over time and situation-not correct most show dis+org features
- + useful informing police of most effective interview strategy to use when offender found
- + helped challenge stereotypes-useful as prevents them from misleading investigation
- Geographical
- -effectiveness limited by unreported crimes. Limited to how police record crime- data from crime maps likely to be incomplete means accurate profile cannot be drawn up
- +Useful identifying crimes linked+ in this way narrows down pool of suspects
- +useful for wide range of crimes unlike typo-arguably more useful for bizarre + rare crimes- more valid approach
- both can be time consuming
- -profile can lead to self-fulfilling prophecy. Person may fit profile but doesn't mean it them e.g. Colin Stagg
- -Difficult to measure effectiveness any profiling technique scientifically-profiling can be criticised as being too vague + little more than common sense
- Typological
- A01
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