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      Differentiating stranger murders: profiling offender characteristics from behavioral styles.

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      Behavioral sciences & the law
      Wiley

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          The literature on "offender profiling" suggests that different "styles" of homicide will reflect differences in the background characteristics of the offender. To test this suggestion, hypotheses were drawn from studies of aggression to propose that murder crime scenes would reveal stylistic distinctions in the role of the aggression in the offense. It was further hypothesized that these distinctions would be clearest for those crime scene indicators that reflect the instrument (cognitive) actions that shape the offense rather than the more expressive (impulsive and emotional) components. Hypotheses about associated offender characteristics were also deduced on the assumption that the murder scene theme revealed the killers' typical styles of interpersonal transaction. To test these hypotheses MDS analyses were carried out on the crime scene and offender characteristics derived from 82 single offender, single victim stranger homicides. A multivariate structure resulted, including all three hypothesized styles, allowing 65% of the cases to be assigned to unique styles and a further 36% to be assigned to appropriate hybrids. Offender characteristics related in the anticipated way to the different crime scene styles, providing a basis for law enforcement inferences about offenders in stranger murders.

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          Journal
          Behav Sci Law
          Behavioral sciences & the law
          Wiley
          0735-3936
          0735-3936
          1999
          : 17
          : 3
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Centre for Investigative Psychology, Eleanor Rathbone Building, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK. gaby@liverpool.ac.uk
          Article
          10.1002/(SICI)1099-0798(199907/09)17:3<391::AID-BSL352>3.0.CO;2-Z
          10.1002/(sici)1099-0798(199907/09)17:3<391::aid-bsl352>3.0.co;2-z
          10481136
          ea3e83a0-7f22-4b72-9e48-872311e03f6f
          Copyright 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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