Top Down Approach (Typology)

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Hint	Answer
	american
	broad distinction between organised and disorganised offenders
	36 serial sex offenders who voluteered to take part
	douglas 1992
	could apply this typology to sexually motivated murders and some cases of arson
	proposed a third category of mixed offender
	profilers start with a pre established typology and assign them to a category based on witness accounts and crime scene evidence
Development of an offender profile (4 stages)	data assimilation
	crime scene classification
	crime reconstruction
	profile generation
Organised	evidence of planning
	victim a stranger
	remove evidence from scene
	intelligent
	socially and sexually competent

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Disorganised	little evidence of planning
	victim is known
	leaves evidence
	low intelligence
	socially and sexually incompetent
Research	canter et al 2004
	100 serial killers
	showed organised characteristics
	being organised is a key characteristic for serial killers as a whole
	doesnt support the typology approach
Counter arguement	mixed offender
Evaluation	too simplistic
	can only be applied to sexually motivated serial killers
	copson 1995 questionnaire
	self reports