Dr C. Gabrielle SalfatiCourse Director, MSc Forensic Behavioural Science
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Salfati, C. G. and Grey, J. (November 2002)
Profiling US Homicide. American Society of Criminology, Chicago, USA.
Recent literature suggests that different "styles"
of homicide will most appropriately be reflected in the different types
of behaviors committed by offenders at a crime scene. These distinctions,
it has been proposed (e.g. Santilla et al 2001, Salfati 2000, Salfati
and Canter 1999), can best be understood using an Instrumental and Expressive
thematic framework in the way the offender acts at the crime scene.
Multidimensional Analysis was carried out on 42 crime scene actions
of 376 U.S. single offender, single victim homicides, with the aim of
replicating earlier European-based studies. A multivariate structure
resulted allowing 59% of the cases to be assigned to dominant styles.
Results are discussed in terms of implications for cross-national similarities
and differences in the thematic structure of homicide, implications
for profiling homicide, and suggests future avenues for research.
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