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CRIMINAL PROFILING GLOSSARY

Horizontales
The category of crime scene that indicates spontaneous actions and a typically frenzied assault
A person affected by a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behaviour
Type of profiling that involves the application of statistical and probabilistic knowledge to a current case, and the source of this information is usually criminological studies, the profiler's own experience, intuition, bias, stereotypes, and generalisations
The method of operation used by the criminal. All actions and behaviours needed to commit the crime.
Type of profiling where profilers collect general information about the crime, and the profiler draws specific conclusions about the criminal's characteristics, based on the profiler's experience, knowledge, and critical thinking
The process whereby behaviours and/or actions exhibited in a crime are assessed and interpreted to form predictions concerning the characteristics of the probable perpetrator/s of a crime
The category of crime scene that indicates planning, premeditation, and conscious effort to avoid detection
The degree of a person's likelihood to commit a crime
A person who murders two or more people, with the killings taking place over a significant period of time
The people most likely to become a victim of crime as they are easier to victimise: sex workers, drug addicts, the homeless, people with disabilities
A murderer who hears voices of sees visions instructing them to kill
Verticales
The 'body of crime'. The evidence that shows a crime has been committed
The degree of a person's risk of becoming a 'victim' as a function of his/her personal, professional or social life
A murderer who take please in killing
People with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviours and a lack of conscience
The murdered gains more satisfaction from exercising complete power over their victims rather than from 'blood lust'
The study of victims affected by crime, accidents, or natural diasters
A person who kills several or numerous victims in a single incident
People who are less likely to be victims of crime. They tend to be wealthy, educated and if they go missing, someone will notice and care.
Another name for inductive profiling. Also known as the American Approach
A murdered who goes on a hunting mission to rid the Earth of a certain group of people
Something unusual or specific left at the crime scene by the perpetrator
Another name for deductive profiling. Also known as the British Approach.
A type of profiling that analyses the locations of a related series of crimes to determine the most probable location of an offender's residence or place of work. Base don the assumption that criminals do not stray far from areas familiar to them.
The person who has experienced harm, in jury, loss or death as the result of a crime