Criminal Investigative Analysis

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Criminal Investigative Analysis
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A Comprehensive Investigative Aid

• Indirect Personality Assessments
• Equivocal Death Analysis
• Investigative Suggestions
• Interview Strategies
• Linkage Analysis
• Media Strategies
• Threat Assessments

FBI U.S. Field Offices
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A Comprehensive Investigative Aid

• Search Warrant Affidavit Assistance
• Trial Strategies (Jury Selection, Opening
  Closing Arguments, Crime Scene Recreation.)
• Expert Testimony
• Geographic Profiling
• Critical Incident Analysis

FBI U.S. Field Offices
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Criminal Profiling

• Practiced around the world
• Serial Murders
• Serial Rapes
• Serial Arsons
• Hostage Taking
• Child Abduction
• Computer Crimes
• Terrorism

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Behavioral Analysis Unit - Canada

• Develop Profiles of Unidentified Offenders
• Analyze Crime Scenes
• Reconstruct Crime Scenes
• Indirect Personality Assessments
• Advice on Investigations Interrogations

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B.A.U. Canada, continued

• Execution of Search Warrants
• Analyze Statements or Testimony
• Analyze Suspicious Deaths
• Conduct Threat Assessments

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Crime Scene Analysis
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Crime Scene Analysis

• How was a crime committed?
• Identify the behaviors that the offender engaged
  in.
• Behaviors that the victim engaged in.

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Crime Scene Analysis

• Crime Scene Reconstruction
• Interpreting the interaction between the victim
  and the offender as exhibited at the crime scene.

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Crime Scene Analysis

• There is no singular definition of criminal
  investigative analysis. Therefore, there is no
  single protocol or procedure that fits a Crime
  Scene Analysis.

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Crime Scene Analysis

• FBI Agents Douglas and Ressler founded the O/D
  Dichotomy
• Organized
• Disorganized
• Modernly, there is some debate and objection to
  this method of analysis.
• Agent Douglas expanded to a Mixed Offender.

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Crime Scene Analysis

• Organized
• Demonstrates Logic and Planning.
• Methodical and cunning, amiable
  person.(Self-controlled.)
• Carried out his crime at a distance from his
  residence.

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Crime Scene Analysis

• Disorganized
• Lacks cunning. (Impulsive.)
• Has an aversion to society.
• Difficulty maintaining relationships.
• Commits crimes close to residence.
• Chaotic (messy) crime scenes. (See Handout)

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Approaches to Profiling

• Criminal Investigative
• Clinical Practitioner (Focus on the specific
  case details in a crime scene.)
• Scientific Statistical / Empirical (Detecting
  global patterns and trends based on
  multivariate analyses of behavior /
  characteristics.)

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Approaches to Profiling

• Crime Scene Profiling involves
• 1) Police collect crime scene data, photographs,
  autopsy results and all relevant physical
  evidence.
• 2) Info is turned over to profiler who offers an
  educated hypothesis.
• 3) Profile Report is accomplished.

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Approaches to Profiling

• Profile Report
• Six Stages to generating a profile.(See Handout)
  
• Effort is to narrow pool of suspects. (Not to
  catch the perpetrator.)

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Six Stages to a Profile

• Profiling Inputs
• Decision Process Models
• Crime Assessment
• The Criminal Profile
• The Investigation
• The Apprehension

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O/D Dichotomy Quiz

• For Each Statement Indicate O for Organized
  or D for Disorganized
• 1) Average to above average intelligence.
• 2) Socially competent.
• 3) Unskilled worker.
• 4) Sexually incompetent.
• 5) Fathers work unstable.

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O/D Dichotomy Quiz

• For Each Statement Indicate O for Organized
  or D for Disorganized
• 6) Inconsistent childhood discipline.
• 7) Anxious mood during crime.
• 8) Controlled mood during crime.
• 9) Minimal use of drugs with crime.
• 10) Living alone.

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O/D Dichotomy Quiz

• For Each Statement Indicate O for Organized
  or D for Disorganized
• 11) Mobility with a vehicle in good condition.
• 12) Works/Lives near crime scene.
• 13) Follows crime in news media.
• 14)May change jobs or leave town.

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O/D Dichotomy Quiz

• 15)

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