Profiling Recap Quiz

What is Criminal Profiling?

• Profiling refers to the process in which the nature of a crime is used to make inferences about the personality and other characteristics of the likely offender

• Profiling refers to the process of interpreting the evidence available and the nature of the crime which accurately leads to the identification of the culprit.

How many types of profiling are there?

• 2

  Offender Profiling and

  Psychological Profiling

• 3

  Crime Profiling, Offender Profiling and Psychological Profiling

• 4

  Crime Profiling, Offender profiling, Psychological Profiling and Geographical Profiling

Which of the following is a bottom-up profiling approach?

• The FBI Approach

• The British Approach

Which of the following is a top-down profiling approach?

• The FBI Approach

• The British Approach

The Top-Down approach

• Relies on previous crime cases to identify offenders' typologies

• Focuses on the perpetrator's motivations and needs

Spatial consistency, according to Canter, refers to the idea that offenders operate in areas they know well

• True

• False

Profiling led to the correct identification and arrest of

• Ted Bundy

• John Duffy

• Colin Stagg