Disorganized Dichotomy

FBI Criminal Profilers hasn’t established reliable methods of profiling due to their incomplete research on selected subjects and their misconception on criminal development. An example of one of the FBI unreliable methods is their criminal investigative analysis method (CIA). It is the process that identifies an offender’s personality and behavioral characteristics based upon the crime scene (Turvey, 2011). The origin of CIA was developed from the knowledge found in a FBI’s studying group. They conducted a study using a small sample pool to determine whether there were any consistent features across offenses that would help to classify future offenders. Due to the small sample of random offenders and their victims features within their respective cases, it was heavily criticized by the peer reviewers. In addition, the FBI research were also criticized for their lack of homogeneous group of offenders. For example, of the 36 offenders in the sample, 25 were serial …show more content…
The dichotomy is a system that classify offenders into two groups by their level of competence and planning in a crime scene. It is based on the years of experience by FBI’s agents to simplify criminal profiling for uneducated law enforcement. An organized crime scene describes an offender who had overall control of their crime. They selected their victim, plan the crime, brought items for the crime and left little to no evidence at the scene. They are considered to have average to above average intelligence, socially competent, and well-mannered (to name a few). A disorganized crime scene describes a chaotic, random and sloppy environment. The offender was unprepared and had a lack of control of the crime. They are considered to have below average intelligence, socially inadequate and possible have a mental illness. If an offender doesn’t fit into one of these categories, then the offender will be labeled as a