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Profiling top down
Offender profiling began with FBI in us when behavioural scene unit began researching the family backgrounds personalities crimes motives of serial killers
Interviewed 36 imprisoned serial killer Charles Manson and tedd Bundy
Insight rye gained interviews through analysis come details combined with intuition of experienced police created classification from various rules
Process
Qualitative profile made from interviews + analysis of crime details/ scenes
.top motives characteristics of offenders
Down categories creating knowledge of crime
Classification system is used to predict prevent crime
Top down
Applies to particular crimes
Based on assumptions that offenders have patterns
Disorganised and organised
Bottom up
Geographical profiling
Rossemer stated offenders operational base of possible future offences revealed by geographical location
Circle theory
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