Criminal profiling terms
Across
- 5. Period The significant gap in time between a serial killer's murders, during which they return to their normal life before planning or committing the next crim
- 7. how investigators find a suspect
- 8. Murderer Someone who commits 3 or more murders in a single event or location in a short amount of time
- 9. Profiling Creating profile on stats and general characteristics of other similar offenders
- 10. Murderer Two or more murders short period of time different locations with cool of periods
Down
- 1. study of victims and why they were chosen
- 2. creating profile based on careful analysis and characteristics with no reliance on outside stats
- 3. The method a criminal uses to commit a crime, including actions to successfully complete the crime This can change over time.
- 4. An offender who travels a distance away from their residence to commit their crimes (they "commute" to a different area to offend).
- 6. The unique unnecessary behavior a offender carries out at a crime scene to fulfill a psychological need