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Forensic Psychology - Coggle Diagram
Forensic Psychology
Top-Down approach
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Context:
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It was based upon the answers of notorious serial killers (e.g. Ted Bundy) on why they did the crimes they committed.
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Organised Crime - won't be much evidence, victim is targeted, follows their crime on the media, high intelligence, body is transported from the scene of the murder, socially and sexually competent.
Disorganised Crime - random victim, a lot of evidence at scene, body found at scene of the crime, low intelligence, wouldn't follow on the media, socially and sexually incompetent.
Steps:
- Profiling inputs (assessment of crime scene)
- Decision process methods (type of murder, time, location)
- Crime assessment (organised or disorganised)
- Criminal profile (likely background, habits, beliefs of offender)
- Crime assessment (re-assessment/written report)
- Apprehension (suspect is taken into custody)
Intro:
A crime is harmful to an individual, group or society.
Culture can affect what is known as a crime - for example: homosexuality used to be a crime in the UK but became legal because of the change of society.
Crime - a social construct – this means that what is judged to be a crime is dependent on society and culture.
Ways to measure crime:
Official statistics - where the government counts the amount of crime (these are only crimes that were recorded)
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Offender Surveys - questioning the people who committed the crime to gain knowledge on why they did the crime.
Bottom-Up Approach
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Context
It was made by David Canter (a well respected psychologist), he reviews 100 serial killers cases in the US, he found there was no clear difference between organised and disorganised crime.
He found that organised killers became disorganised with time,
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