Criminal Minds Vocabulary

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  1. 4. a person affected by chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.
  2. 6. An investigative tool is used to identify, arrest and convict unknown people who have committed criminal offences.
  3. 8. someone who commits a criminal act that involves two or more murders or homicides in a short time, often in multiple locations.
  4. 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.
  5. 10. Murderer;a person who commits mass murder
  6. 11. a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
  7. 13. the study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects on them of their experience.
  8. 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.
  9. 19. develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
  10. 21. would normally not place them in any degree of risk for becoming a victim of a violent crime.
  11. 24. the analysis of the causes of pathological behavior of serial killers
  12. 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.
  13. 26. The act or process of dissociating the state of being dissociated.
Down
  1. 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. 2. a person who harasses or persecutes someone with unwanted and obsessive attention.
  3. 3. someone who is at risk for being a victim of a violent crime.
  4. 5. something that causes a state of strain or tension.
  5. 7. an individual who planned his murders and displayed con- trol at the crime scene
  6. 12. the amount by which destruction or the capacity for destruction exceeds what is necessary.
  7. 14. the action or state of forcing or being forced to do something; constraint
  8. 16. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
  9. 17. someone who is a higher risk for being a victim of a violent crime.
  10. 18. the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness.
  11. 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.
  12. 22. the state of being obsessed with someone or something.
  13. 23. a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.