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Offender Relationship (offender + relationship)
Selected AbstractsAn Empirical Analysis of 30 Years of U.S. Juvenile and Adult Sexual Homicide Offender Data: Race and Age Differences in the Victim,Offender RelationshipJOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES, Issue 5 2010Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan M.A. Abstract:, Little is known about the racial patterns of crimes committed by sexual homicide offenders (SHOs). This study examined race and age influences on victim,offender relationship for juvenile and adult SHOs. A large sample (N = 3868) from the Supplemental Homicide Reports (1976,2005) was used. Analyses of victim,offender patterns included examining victim age effects (child, adolescent, adult, and elderly). The findings revealed several race- and age-based differences. Black offenders were significantly overrepresented in the SHO population. This finding held for juveniles and adults independently. White SHOs were highly likely to kill within their race, "intra-racially" (range 91,100%) across four victim age categories, whereas Black SHOs killed both intra-racially (range 24,82%) and inter-racially (18,76%), with the likelihood of their killing inter-racially increasing as the age of the victim increased. This study underscores the importance of considering victim,offender racial patterns in sexual murder investigations, and it offers practical implications for offender profiling. [source] Investigating the nature of expressiveness in stranger, acquaintance and intrafamilial homicidesJOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND OFFENDER PROFILING, Issue 3 2005Stephanie K. Last Abstract This study explores the role of the victim,offender relationship in the dynamics of homicide, by examining the crime scene behaviour of 25 intrafamilial, 30 acquaintance and 27 stranger homicide offenders (n = 82). Six crime scene variables were examined: ,Weapon from the scene', ,Excessive wounding', ,Facial trauma', ,Multiple wounds to a single area', ,Post-mortem activity' and ,Manual violence'. The first objective was to identify whether these variables could be combined to form a partially ordered scale of expressiveness. The second was to examine whether the nature of this expressive crime scene varied according to the victim and offender relationship. It was hypothesised that the intrafamilial homicides would be characterised by a more expressive crime scene. This was examined by Partial Order Scalogram Analysis which supported the hypothesised link between the level of expressed emotion evident in the crime scene and the nature of the victim,offender relationship. Further analysis on the individual variables revealed that the best single predictor of the relationship between victim and offender was the presence of multiple wounding. These findings are discussed both as contributing to a theoretical understanding of the emotional salience of crime scene actions when killing a family member, and in practical terms in relation to the significance of these variables for both police investigations and clinical interventions with homicide perpetrators. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Children's memory for trauma and positive experiencesJOURNAL OF TRAUMATIC STRESS, Issue 3 2003Lucy Berliner Abstract Characteristics of children's memory for a trauma and for a positive event were compared and relationships of memory characteristics to trauma symptoms examined in 30 children who experienced a traumatic event. Results revealed that memories for trauma tended to have less sensory detail and coherence, yet have more meaning and impact than did memories for positive experiences. Sexual traumas, offender relationship, and perceived life threat were associated with memory characteristics. Few relationships between memory characteristics and trauma symptoms were found. Therapist ratings of child memory characteristics were correlated with some child trauma memory characteristic reports. These results are consistent with other studies. Possible explanations include divided attention during the traumatic event and cognitive avoidance occurring after the event. [source] | ||||||||||