Criminal Minds Vocabulary
Across
- 4. a person affected by chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.
- 6. An investigative tool is used to identify, arrest and convict unknown people who have committed criminal offences.
- 8. someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders or homicides in a short time, often in multiple locations.
- 9. a crime analysis technique that uses the locations of a connected series of crime sites to determine the most probable area of offender residence.
- 10. Murderer;a person who commits mass murder
- 11. a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
- 13. the study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects on them of their experience.
- 15. a method of operation or pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that separate crimes or wrongful conduct are recognized as the work of the same person.
- 19. develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
- 21. would normally not place them in any degree of risk for becoming a victim of a violent crime.
- 24. the analysis of the causes of pathological behavior of serial killers
- 25. a person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a check or document or concluding a letter.
- 26. The act or process of dissociating the state of being dissociated.
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- 1. the crime of entering a dwelling and committing or with intent to commit a crime (as assault) while armed and while another is lawfully present.
- 2. a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention.
- 3. someone who is at risk for being a victim of a violent crime.
- 5. something that causes a state of strain or tension.
- 7. an individual who planned his murders and displayed con- trol at the crime scene
- 12. the amount by which destruction or the capacity for destruction exceeds what is necessary.
- 14. the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint
- 16. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
- 17. someone who is a higher risk for being a victim of a violent crime.
- 18. the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.
- 20. offender who approaches his or her crimes in a frenzied and impulsive manner, is typically of low to moderate intelligence and socially withdrawn, and has a poor work history.
- 22. the state of being obsessed with someone or something.
- 23. a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.