Investigative Techniques & Case Management Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of establishing a 'baseline' when profiling a serial offender's behavior?
Answer: To identify deviations that may indicate escalation or signature changes
A behavioral baseline allows investigators to detect meaningful deviations across crimes that may signal offender evolution, learning, or cooling-off period changes.
The 'organized vs. disorganized' offender typology primarily helps investigators predict:
Answer: Crime scene characteristics and likely offender background traits
The organized/disorganized dichotomy correlates crime scene characteristics with likely offender traits such as social competence, employment, and planning ability.
In investigative profiling, 'deductive profiling' differs from 'inductive profiling' in that it:
Answer: Relies on crime scene-specific evidence rather than statistical patterns
Deductive profiling draws conclusions from the specific evidence of an individual case, while inductive profiling applies statistical generalizations from other cases.
A 'cooling-off period' between offenses is most characteristic of which type of violent offender?
Answer: Serial killer
Serial killers are defined in part by a cooling-off period between separate murder events, distinguishing them from mass or spree killers.
Which investigative technique uses geographic data to predict where an offender likely lives or works?
Answer: Criminal geographic targeting (CGT)
Criminal geographic targeting (CGT) analyzes the spatial distribution of crimes to generate probability maps for an offender's anchor point.
When assessing 'risk level' in a victim's lifestyle, a profiler considers this primarily to:
Answer: Understand why the victim may have been targeted and estimate offender risk-taking
Assessing victim lifestyle risk helps the profiler understand offender target selection and the degree of risk the offender was willing to accept.
In case management, 'jailhouse informant' information is typically treated with caution because:
Answer: Informants often lack firsthand knowledge and may have incentives to fabricate
Jailhouse informants frequently have personal incentives such as sentence reduction, making their testimony potentially unreliable without strong corroboration.