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In depth notes of AQA A Level Psychology Forensics module. Includes offender profiling, biological explanations, Eysenck’s theory, cognitive explanations, differential association theory, psychodynamic explanations, custodial sentencing aims, custodial sentencing impacts, behaviour modification, anger management theory, restorative justice. Notes include content and evaluation produced by a top grade A Level student.

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,
, offender profiling : the top-down approach :




spec : the top down approach ,
including organised+ disorganised types of offender

To crime , the offenders UK's
offender profiling Using
: solve , victims + evidence must be
categorised. One of the leading
behavioural +
analytical criminal profilers is David Canter .
He contributed to the first murder case that had input
tools to attempt to from a
psychologist (the Railway Rapist ,
1986).

enaracteristics
identify The US different approaches
UK have it comes to
+ when
solving crime:

of an unknown killer .
1) the top-down approach (USA) :




the idea that profilers Star pre-established work down from there
typologies With a
typology
:
+


serious offenders have to
assign specific offenders to one of these categories based on

particular characteristics witness accounts + evidence from the crime scene.

·
it was first developed by the FBIs behavioural Science Unit

in the 1970s.


psychologists analysed data gathered from
·
36 in-depth

interviews with
sexually motivated killers (inc Ted Bundy +
.




Charles Manson.)

·
from there , the FBI developed a classification system for

murderers/rapists organised+ disorganised. :




To FBI profile, there are 4
construct an
stages :




1) data assimilation -


the profiler reviews evidence


2) crime aassification-organised/disorganised
scene

3) crime reconstruction
hypotheses in terms of sequencing of events, behaviour of
victim ect ,
.




4 profile generation hypotheses related to
likely offender




X
only applies to particular crimes Crape , arson murder
,
, Cult
killings)
X based on outdated models of personality-reduced validity
~ original two types were
appealing of it narrows search

X
typologies of assessed murderers tell us
nothing about those who haven't been caught.

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