A-Level Psychology (AQA): Forensic Psychology - The Top Down Approach

Covers the top down approach to offender profiling.
Take a look at the origins of the approach, the purpose of profiling and the difference between organised and disorganised offenders.
Also covers 3 evaluation points and a model 6 mark outline for an essay.

Ideal for first time learning and revision.

[netflixandburn]

12:40 Are the interpersonal and opportunistic categories a separate label alongside whether a criminal is organised/disorganised? So a crime might be interpersonal disorganised, for example?

Only it's a little confusing because organised and opportunistic don't sound like they could occur together.

[saranajafi]

If you talk about Ted Bundy as an example of an organised offender, will examiners like that? Or is it better to leave it out?

[hattiegill]

real helpful thank you! just one question- when you talked about the 4 main stages of constructing an FBI profile, would it be beneficial mentioning them in an outline top down approach question, or would this be in a different question?

[temi]

do we actually need to remeber the applied examples of Ted Bundy and Richard Chase for the exam?

[zanderbryant]

1:57 I think there is a mistake here as it says on the text “36 sexually motivated serial killers” whereas you said “36 sexually motivated killers, 25 of which were serial killers” out loud

[ade]

Thank you so much this was really helpful! Just a quick question please, I thought the definitions and measurement of crime was removed on the specification for forensics in the new spec. But I am surprised it was assessed as an 8 marker question in 2019. Why is that?