Summary: The Brent Turvey Classification System
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This classification system can be used and applied with little case analysis, which makes it a dangerous classification system to use at times. Sometimes an offender does not perfectly fit into either category, organized or disorganized. Most offenders are often a mix of the two making this type of analysis even more risky at times. When uneducated law enforcement is given access to unsophisticated labels an offender may not be classified correctly. Brent Turvey, the author of Criminal Profiling an Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, disagrees with the use of the terms organized and disorganized. He states that most crime scenes happen on a continuum between the two extremes of organized and disorganized. Since the majority of crime