JUST 591 Final Exam Questions With Complete Solutions

criminal profiling correct answer: the process of identifying key factors of an offender based on characteristics of the crime personality traits in criminal profiling correct answer: looks to see if the offender is an introvert vs an extrovert, the level of social and communication skills they have, the level of ego, and their level of intelligence behavioral tendencies of criminal profiling correct answer: looks to see what degree the victim and the killer knew each other, what they have been doing lately, if there was passion in the murder, how the crime scene was organized, the MO, patterns of the killer, age, level of sophistication, likelihood they have done it before, and mental illness geographical locations in criminal profiling correct answer: where the crimes are occurring forensics mapping correct answer: crimes are mapped out and try to find out where the offender lives demographics/biological descriptions in criminal profiling correct answer: looks at how people of certain ages will do certain types of crimes, race can be a factor too goals of criminal profiling correct answer: to narrow down suspects and to predict static risk factors correct answer: factors that never change example: race dynamic risk factors correct answer: risk factors that change over time and situation example: age stable dynamic risk factors correct answer: risk factors that change very slow and may take months or even years to change example: mental illness acute dynamic risk factors correct answer: risk factors that have a tendency to change quickly, have a sudden impact, and has to be a trigger to push that person to commit that crime example: rejection modus operandi (MO) correct answer: the actions and procedures as offenders use to commit a crime; what allows offenders to commit the crime but also allows police to link the crimes inductive profiling correct answer: the process of profiling criminal behavior, crime scenes, and victims from the known behaviors and emotions suggested by other criminals, crime scenes, and victims positives of inductive profiling correct answer: once the profile is done it is done, narrows the investigation, and 1st attempt to connect psychology with criminal behavior negatives of inductive profiling correct answer: assumes human behavior is predictable when human behavior is not because a pattern in the past could not be pattern in the future; interviews are based off of those who have already been caught deductive criminal profiling correct answer: the process of interpreting physical evidence to look at offender signature, demographics, emotions, and motivations what is a good criminal profile? correct answer: it understands the inductive evidence but also knows the knowledge of deductive evidence typology correct answer: looks at certain characteristics, traits, and demographics of an offender motive correct answer: criminal profiling looks at motivation of a crime and these motives tend to be psychological in nature; provide us with something positive and provide us with something negative; unconscious to the killer David Berkowitz correct answer: motive: prevention of what his mother did to him when he was younger Jeffrey Dahmer correct answer: motive: longed for social interactions and connections with people but had no social skills so killing his victims made him feel connected to them EAR/ONS correct answer: motive: instilling fear in his victims because he liked seeing them frightened questions about crime scenes correct answer: -was the body left where it was killed? -why did the offender choose the particular place to leave the body? - how much time did the offender spend with the body? -was there a sexual component? -was there overkill? -how much physical evidence was there? -is MO consistent? -what was driving them to kill? victimology correct answer: study of victims of the crime and try to understand the behavior and psychology and what type of impression the victim might have had; helps investigators how and why an offender may have been drawn; used in deductive profiling psychological autopsies correct answer: reconstructing the last 3-5 weeks of the victim's life to understand that patterns, state of minds, and potential vulnerab