Sexual Killers and Their Victims
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Vol. 1 (3) , 288-308
- https://doi.org/10.1177/088626086001003003
Abstract
The study of crime scene profiling efforts elicits two important patterns of sexual murders: organized and disorganized. These law enforcement categories have been derived from evidence and patterns of evidence at the site of sexual murders. The study then explores victim information and its relationship to the two categories. In particular, we explored victim response to the offender in terms of no resistance and active resistance to the assault. We found that regardless of type of resistance, active or passive, and category of offender, death ensued. When we examined nine victims who survived, the category of offender was not the predictor, rather, “chance happenings” preserved life.Keywords
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