Exam 14: Case Linkage: Offender Modus Operandi and Signature

It is the nature of the dissimilarities that are of greater weight and importance to rendering linkage conclusions.

Review the following paragraphs and answer the questions below. Offender A covers a victim's face with her own shirt during a rape. This behavior is part of a psychological desire, facilitating a fantasy that the victim is another person. Offender B covers a victim's face with her own shirt during as part of a functional need to keep the victim from seeing his face and identifying him at a later time. -Explain the difference between signature behavior and MO.

Offender signature refers to the pattern or cluster of which of the following?

All crimes contain evidence of signature behavior.

Which of the following is not considered an MO behavior?

Offender signature and signature behavior are synonymous terms.

Explain the difference between active signature behaviors and passive signature behaviors. Provide one example of each.

Review the following paragraphs and answer the questions below. Offender A covers a victim's face with her own shirt during a rape. This behavior is part of a psychological desire, facilitating a fantasy that the victim is another person. Offender B covers a victim's face with her own shirt during as part of a functional need to keep the victim from seeing his face and identifying him at a later time. -Covering the victim's face is considered a signature behavior in which of the above examples? Explain.

Crimes that evidence a probative link do not contain behavioral dissimilarities.

Signature behaviors are rare.