Exam 8: Behavioral Evidence and Crime Analysis

______ is potentially useful in the criminal investigation process but it is problematic and subject to error, as are other forms of evidence available to investigators.

An offender who leaves an organized crime scene ______.

______ refers to the principle that offenders with similar criminal behaviors exhibit similar characteristics.

The construction of psychological profiles is a process of mapping the characteristics of offenders of previously solved crimes and applying them to offenders of unsolved ones.

What is staging?

______ is the concept that, as the distance away from a perpetrator's home increases, the chances of him/her committing a crime decreases.

______ provide the perpetrator memories of the victim or the incident.

Psychological profiling has been developed within the past five years or so.

Which does not apply to an organized crime scene of a murderer ______.

Psychological and crime scene profiling are the same as offender profiling.

What does NOT apply to crime analysis?

Discuss the assumptions of the profiling process.

Statement analysis and stylometry are also known as ______.

______ are areas where an individual spends the majority of his/her time.

In which of the following investigations did psycholinguistics have a positive impact on the outcome of the case?

Psychological profiles are often used in cases where a traditional motive is lacking; they are used in the most ______ of cases.

A blitz-style attack often indicates a younger (and disorganized) killer.

ViCAP is a nationwide database, which will identify an offender if enough characteristics of a crime are entered into it.

Discuss the difference between an organized crime scene and a disorganized crime scene.

Sadistic or other violent behavior by a perpetrator in a rape is an indicator that the perpetrator committed previous similar crimes or will likely commit more such crimes in the future.