WorksheetsCriminal Profiling Revision
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 36mins
Goals of criminal profiling
provide social and psychological assessment of offender
Narrow down suspects in investigation
provide interview suggestions & strategies
None of the above
A victim is
Person that witnessed the crime
Person that committed the crime
person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime
Person that interviews people who commit crimes
Example(s) of evidence
Fingerprints
Hair and Fibers
Weapons
camera and surveillance photos
Family dispute is an example of intent and motive
True
False
criminal profiling is typically used in
All cases
Not used
Serial offender cases
High crime cases
By assessing the victim we can determine
Potential suspects
linking suspect to victim
why they would be a target
Where they were located when the crime took place
Criminal profile is
reconstruction of the sequence of events
developing a description of the suspect
lifestyle and social environment of the suspect
profiler's written report
A Psychopathic personality type tends to be evident when
A person shows little or no remorse or concern for their actions
A person has empathy but cannot control his/her urges to offend
A person suffers from depression and Anxiety
A person has not been adequately supported in their views about life
A common trait of both psychopaths and sociopaths is that they
Lack empathy toward others
Lack emotion
Often have a low IQ
Have been physically abused before
The operating technique of the offender
corpus delicti
signature
modus operandi
staging
Altering a crime scene to throw off the investigation
modus operandi
corpus delicti
signature
staging
An increase in the intensity of criminal behavior
escalation
staging
signature
undoing
Which is NOT a characteristic of an "organized" offender?
probably has a live-in relationship with someone
meticulous
chooses victims randomly
older child in a family
Which s NOT a characteristic of an "unorganized" offender?
low in their family birth order
remained detached during the crime
lives alone
adequate
True or False, Criminal profiling is the act of developing a psychological profile of an offender based on the state of the crime scene.
True
False
A spree killer is someone who....
has killed three or more people over a period of at least a month, with a period of down time between the murders.
has killed people in one time period (i.e. a day) in several locations.
has killed people in one time period but in only one location.
has only killed one person.
The bottom up approach....
Builds a picture of the criminal by using facts and figures.
Builds a picture of the criminal by using intuition, common sense and someone's gut feeling.
Builds a picture of the criminal by using emotions, feelings and someone's own judgement.
The top down approach....
Uses only facts, figures and statistics gathered by a profiler to draw up a profile from the crime scene.
Uses the experience and intuition of a profiler to draw up a profile from the crime scene.
