In the 4 decades since offender profiling (OP) was established, hundreds of journal articles,
books, book chapters, reports, and magazine articles have been published on the topic, and …

Establishing an empirically valid typology of sexual murder is necessary for developing
theory, risk assessment, and intervention. Results from all empirical studies conducted …

Sexual homicide continues to be one of the most widely reported and sensationalised forms
of murder, attracting fascination from the public and scholars alike. Despite this continued …

Purpose Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a broad conceptual framework in the
social sciences that have only recently been studied within criminology. The purpose of this …

The goal of this current systematic review was to describe the characteristics of the modus
operandi of serial and nonserial sexual murderers, and the contextual and situational factors …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review presents recent findings of research focusing on
sexual homicide. Firstly, we examine international comparative studies of victim, offender …

Although most homicides involve the use of a weapon, some offenders still prefer killing with
their own hands, using strangulation. In fact, when disaggregating the various types of …

Sexual homicide (or sexual murder) is largely referred to as a homicide that is committed
with an apparent or underlying sexual motivation. Although this topic has been increasingly …

In addition to being an unusual form of crime, sexual homicide (SH) sometimes includes
unusual crime scene behaviours, such as carving on the victim, evisceration (ie, removal of …

The current study investigates the question of the specificity of sexual homicide offenders by
comparing three types of crimes: sexual homicide, nonsexual homicide, and violent sexual …