Organised vs Disorganised Typology
Definition
The BSU classification of sexually motivated murderers based on planning, victim selection, scene control, and evidence removal; original binary; later refined to a spectrum in the Crime Classification Manual.
Related terms
- Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)
- The FBI unit, descended from the BSU, that provides behavioural evidence analysis support to homicide, sexual assault, terrorism, and threat-assessment investigations in...
- Criminal Investigative Analysis (CIA)
- The FBI BSU's formal method for profiling unknown offenders from crime-scene evidence, involving a structured analytical process that produces an offender description...
- ENFSI IP Working Group
- The European Network of Forensic Science Institutes Investigative Psychology Working Group, which sets standards for behavioural analysis practice across EU member states,...
- Equivocal Forensic Analysis
- The first stage of Behavioral Evidence Analysis (BEA), in which the analyst reviews all physical evidence without assumption about the offender to...
- Investigative Psychology
- David Canter's empirically grounded approach to behavioural analysis, using multivariate statistical methods and systematic case comparison rather than clinical inference from interview-based...
- ViCAP
- The FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, a national database established in 1985 for the comparison and linkage of violent crime cases across...
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- Offender Profiling: FBI BSU vs Canter Investigative PsychologyThe BSU classification of sexually motivated murderers based on planning, victim selection, scene control, and evidence removal; original binary; later refined...