Examining the modus operandi of sexual offenders against children and its practical implications

Leclerc, Benoît; Proulx, Jean; Beauregard, Éric

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2008.08.001

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“…IJCJ&SD 32 Online version via www.crimejusticejournal.com © 2018 7(1) consistent with developing a relationship with victims before initiating sexual contact (see Elliot 2017;Leclerc, Proulx and Beauregard 2009). It is important to understand grooming and grooming-related behaviors (Elliot 2017); the following offers more in-depth explanations.…”

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Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

Spraitz

Bowen

Strange

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Sexual grooming is generally thought of as the way that would-be abusers build trust and camaraderie with their victims in order to lower the victims' inhibitions and eventually take advantage of the situation. Minimal levels of empiricism have focused on the sexual grooming patterns of abusive Catholic priests in the United States. In order to help close this gap, we conducted a retrospective content analysis of publicly available documents of credibly accused priests from one diocese in Illinois. Findings suggest that accused priests from this diocese used any of eight grooming techniques in order to abuse their victims; one of these tactics is specific to priest offenders. Using that knowledge, we propose and discuss a behavioral taxonomy of priest sexual grooming as well as the direction that future research should take in assessing this potential taxonomy. KeywordsSexual abuse; priests; Catholic Church; grooming; taxonomy; content analysis. Please cite this article as:

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Section: Definitions Of Groomingmentioning

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Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

Spraitz

Bowen

Strange

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…Bennell & Jones (2005) have tried to determine if readily available information about commercial and residential serial burglaries, in the form of the offender's modus operandi, provides a statistically significant basis for accurately linking crimes committed by the same offenders. Leclerc, Proulx & Beauregard (2009) have reviewed the theoretical, empirical, and practical implications related to the modus operandi of sexual offenders against children. They have presented the rational choice perspective in criminology followed by descriptive studies aimed specifically at providing information on modus operandi of sexual offenders against children.…”

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Fuzzy based binary feature profiling for modus operandi analysis

Chamikara

Galappaththi

Yapa

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PeerJ Computer Science

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It is a well-known fact that some criminals follow perpetual methods of operations known as modi operandi. Modus operandi is a commonly used term to describe the habits in committing crimes. These modi operandi are used in relating criminals to crimes for which the suspects have not yet been recognized. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a new method to find connections between crimes and criminals using modi operandi. The method involves generating a feature matrix for a particular criminal based on the flow of events of his/her previous convictions. Then, based on the feature matrix, two representative modi operandi are generated: complete modus operandi and dynamic modus operandi. These two representative modi operandi are compared with the flow of events of the crime at hand, in order to generate two other outputs: completeness probability (CP) and deviation probability (DP). CP and DP are used as inputs to a fuzzy inference system to generate a score which is used in providing a measurement for the similarity between the suspect and the crime at hand. The method was evaluated using actual crime data and ten other open data sets. In addition, comparison with nine other classification algorithms showed that the proposed method performs competitively with other related methods proving that the performance of the new method is at an acceptable level.

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“…One particularly fruitful area in recent years has been the rapid growth in studies from a situational perspective (e.g., Brayley et al 2011;Cockbain et al 2011 Deslauriers-Varin and Beauregard 2010; Leclerc et al 2008Leclerc et al , 2009aLeclerc et al , b, 2011Terry and Ackerman 2008;Wortley andSmallbone 2006b, c, 2012). Rather than address the 'why' of child sexual abuse, such situational enquiries typically focus on the 'what' , 'where' , 'how' , 'when' and 'who' .…”

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