Forensic Psychology

Physical and Behavioral Evidence Based Crime Scene Analysis

The crime scene analysis approach that is taken in profiling works under the assumption that the crime scene will reflect the personality of the perpetrator. FBI profilers have been able to identify the characteristics of the organized and disorganized rapists and murderers. (Thorton, 2002) The profiler’s will use information that they gather from the crime scene and reflect on the nature of the crime in order to produce a psychological profile that would be consistent with the offender in question. The offender can be classified as organized or disorganized based on the information they were able to obtain from the crime scene and other aspects of the crime itself.

“An organized offender is thought to be very intelligent, socially competent and very charismatic.” (Curt Bartol, 2012) The disorganized offender is described as being of average intelligence, immature socially and a loner by default....