A comparison of online and offline Grooming characteristics: An application of the victim roles model

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The present study examined whether there are different processes operating in the crime location choices between body‐disposing and non‐body‐disposing serial killers and between sexual serial killers and acquisitive serial killers. A sample of 49 series of solved German serial killings is used to examine the differences in travelled distances between these groups of killers. Nonparametric tests revealed that body‐disposing and non‐body‐disposing serial killers and sexual and acquisitive serial killers did not constitute subgroups of serial killers regarding their spatial behaviour. The results suggest that the compared groups are subjected to the same factors that influence their travelled distances. Furthermore, the possible role of planning and anticipated emotions in crime location choices of serial killers is discussed, as well as the limitations of the study and recommendations for future research.

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confidence: 99%

Crime location choices: A geographical analysis of German serial killers

Synnott

Bakker²,

Ιωάννου

et al. 2019

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“…SSA facilitates the examination of relationships by testing the co‐occurrence of each variable with every other variable, the null hypothesis being that the variables have no visible relationship to each other. The strength of SSA is its use of rank orders of co‐occurrences as rank orders of distances in the geometric space (Ioannou & Debowska, ) and it has been used with success in a number of studies explicating themes (see Canter & Fritzon, ; Fritzon & Garbutt, ; Ioannou, Hammond, & Simpson, ; Ioannou & Oostinga, ; Ioannou, Synnott, Reynolds, & Pearson, ; Salfati, ; Yaneva, Ioannou, Hammond, & Synnott, ; Youngs & Ioannou, ; Youngs, Ioannou, & Eagles, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Examining the narrative roles in suicide notes

Grayson

Tzani

Pylarinou

et al. 2020

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The present study examines suicide notes, using a sample of suicide notes from published corpora (N = 50), combined with a sample of recent suicide notes from a suicide website (N = 50). The present study proposes a model of differentiation in completed suicides. The characteristics of the suicide notes were analysed using a content dictionary developed by Giles in 2007, and the data subjected to smallest space analysis. Four themes of suicide completer were discovered: Egoistic Victim, Anomic Hero, Altruistic Professional and Fatalistic Revenger. The implications of these findings and the potential use in therapy work with suicide survivors and those with suicidal ideation are discussed, as well as suggestions for the direction of future research.

“…Furthermore, the study's large sample allows for the findings to be confidently accepted as a reliable representation of potential witnesses. The researchers acknowledge the significance of narrative theory within Investigative Psychology research (see Ioannou, 2006;Ioannou, Canter, Youngs, & Synnott, 2015;Ioannou, Hammond & Simpson 2015;Ioannou, Synnott, Lowe, & Tzani-Pepelasi, 2018;Ioannou, Synnott, Reynolds & Pearson, 2018). Thus, the authors propose that a fruitful direction for future research, in relation to the current journal's scope, would be to explore whether the personal narratives that eyewitnesses apply to their roles can influence the nature of their statements.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the effects of age and gender on cowitness suggestibility during blame attribution

Mojtahedi

Ιωάννου

Hammond

et al. 2019

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Despite a large body of research investigating the effects of age and gender on eyewitness suggestibility, the majority of studies has focussed on the impressionability of participants when attempting to recall the presence of items from an event. Very little research has attempted to investigate the effects of age and gender on the suggestibility of eyewitnesses when attempting to attribute blame. Participants (N = 268) viewed and discussed a crime (video) with cowitnesses before giving individual statements. Confederates were used to expose the participants to misinformation during the discussion, suggesting that the wrong bystander was responsible for the offence. Findings indicated that participants who encountered the misinformation were more likely to make a false blame attribution and were more confident in their erroneous judgements. The results found no significant age‐ or gender‐related differences in blame conformity rates; however, male eyewitnesses showed greater levels of overconfidence in their false responses than female participants, after encountering cowitness misinformation.