Organized vs. Disorganized Profiling
The main purpose of using organized and disorganized profiling tactics is to establish the basis of the perpetrators personality in order to make a prediction of where they may fit into society when looking for suspects. An organized killer/perpetrator is classified by the FBI as an individual that is non-social, controlling, cunning, and a planner, along with having a smart sense of the law and forensics, making it easy for them to avoid being caught and maintain control. At the crime scene, an organized killer/perpetrator will position the body, will show control in the way they murdered their victim, they will usually purposely clothe the victim or unclothe, and they will have brought the weapon with …show more content…
Godwin explains that, for both organized and disorganized perpetrators they both will inflict blunt force trauma to the face, both will blitz attack their victims, and it has shown that the two types often show conflicting/crossing traits of one another at a crime scene, creating difficulty for profilers when trying to determine facts about the perpetrator. They also point out that many theories behind why these perpetrators do what they do have too vague of explanations with little to no evidence to back them up, making them inaccurate, including why they kill. Another big point that Godwin (2002) addresses is that when classifying perpetrators with antisocial personality disorder guided by the DSM-III (the version out when the paper was written) the criteria is a measurement of antisocial and criminal behavior, but does not measure the interpersonal characteristics of an individual that also displays psychopathological …show more content…
The first complaint is that after reviewing a study conducted on 100 serial murders, where they attempted to classify the crimes as organized or disorganized using the FBI’s manual of classification, they found that it was extremely difficult to distinguish if the crime scene showed signs of organized or disorganized killing, concluding with the question of whether or not organized/disorganized profiling really could be accurate with all of the difficulty that comes with trying to make the distinctions. They also found that similar studies had the same results, scrutinizing the FBI for using a method that proves to be inaccurate in more then one study (Snook et al., 2008). Another point made about the inaccuracy of organized/ disorganized profiling is that the FBI suggests that if an offender is organized then they will also prove to be organized throughout all aspects of their life, but again there is no evidence found to support this theory. Snook and colleagues found that when looking at organized/disorganized killers the distinction between disorganized and organized was within the situational factors and not as much in the individual as the FBI
The main purpose of using organized and disorganized profiling tactics is to establish the basis of the perpetrators personality in order to make a prediction of where they may fit into society when looking for suspects. An organized killer/perpetrator is classified by the FBI as an individual that is non-social, controlling, cunning, and a planner, along with having a smart sense of the law and forensics, making it easy for them to avoid being caught and maintain control. At the crime scene, an organized killer/perpetrator will position the body, will show control in the way they murdered their victim, they will usually purposely clothe the victim or unclothe, and they will have brought the weapon with …show more content…
Godwin explains that, for both organized and disorganized perpetrators they both will inflict blunt force trauma to the face, both will blitz attack their victims, and it has shown that the two types often show conflicting/crossing traits of one another at a crime scene, creating difficulty for profilers when trying to determine facts about the perpetrator. They also point out that many theories behind why these perpetrators do what they do have too vague of explanations with little to no evidence to back them up, making them inaccurate, including why they kill. Another big point that Godwin (2002) addresses is that when classifying perpetrators with antisocial personality disorder guided by the DSM-III (the version out when the paper was written) the criteria is a measurement of antisocial and criminal behavior, but does not measure the interpersonal characteristics of an individual that also displays psychopathological …show more content…
The first complaint is that after reviewing a study conducted on 100 serial murders, where they attempted to classify the crimes as organized or disorganized using the FBI’s manual of classification, they found that it was extremely difficult to distinguish if the crime scene showed signs of organized or disorganized killing, concluding with the question of whether or not organized/disorganized profiling really could be accurate with all of the difficulty that comes with trying to make the distinctions. They also found that similar studies had the same results, scrutinizing the FBI for using a method that proves to be inaccurate in more then one study (Snook et al., 2008). Another point made about the inaccuracy of organized/ disorganized profiling is that the FBI suggests that if an offender is organized then they will also prove to be organized throughout all aspects of their life, but again there is no evidence found to support this theory. Snook and colleagues found that when looking at organized/disorganized killers the distinction between disorganized and organized was within the situational factors and not as much in the individual as the FBI