Alternative Methods of Criminal Profling

Idiographic

Study of the concrete

examining individuals and their actual qualities

Criminal Investigative Analysis

FBI's tern from ciminal profling

Uses organized/disorganized dichotomy

Diagnostic Evaluations

Services offered by medical and mental health professionals

Nomothetic

The study of the abstract

examing groups and universal laws

Investigative Psychology

Five Factor Model that reflects an offender's past and present

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1) Interpersonal coherence2) Significance of time and place3) Criminal characteristics4) Criminal career5) Forensic awareness

Geographic Profiling

Offenders home or other locations of familiarity can be determined from cime locations

Based on 3 Theories

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1) Least effort principle2) Distance decay3) The circle theory

Organized/Disorganized Typology

FBI's binary crime scene and offender classification system

Organized Offenders

planned

Disorganized Offenders

spontaneous