Juvenile and Adult Offenders Arrested for Sexual Homicide: An Analysis of Victim–Offender Relationship and Weapon Used by Race*

Chan, Heng Choon; Heide, Kathleen M.; Myers, Wade C.

doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02188.x

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“…Also notable was that a significant proportion of victims of older SHOs (about one‐quarter) and adult SHOs (about one‐third) were strangers. These findings are relatively in line with the extant literature on sexual homicides, in which most offenders and victims were White , personal and edged weapons were the most commonly used killing method , and a large majority of the victims were nonintimates or nonfamily members . Finally, the incidence trends over time for sexual homicide in both samples decreased dramatically over the 37‐year period examined, which is consistent with the analysis conducted by Myers and colleagues for a 32‐year period between 1976 and 2007.…”

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Sexual Homicide by Older Male Offenders

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Chan

Mariano

et al. 2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Recent research has expanded our understanding of sexual homicide offenders (SHOs). However, little exists beyond case reports for older SHOs. We characterized male SHOs ≥ 55 years, comparing them to typical adult male SHOs who are in their twenties. Analysis of 37 years (1976–2012) of U.S. Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR) data provided a large SHO sample (N = 3, 453). Three case reports provide clinical context for the diverse nature and patterns of older SHOs. Only 32 older male SHOs and no older female SHOs were identified. Murders by older SHOs accounted for only 0.5% of U.S. sexual homicides. Unlike typical SHOs that generally target young adult females, over two thirds of older SHO victims were ≥ 40 years, and one-third were ≥ 55 years. Sexual homicides by older SHOs, like sexual homicide in general, decreased over the study period. These crimes, while exceedingly rare, do occur, warranting special consideration.

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Sexual Homicide by Older Male Offenders

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Chan

Mariano

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“…Corresponding psychiatric evaluation or diagnosis is not included. With only these basic data, exploring interpersonal dynamics of filicide offending patterns is hindered, and the dataset’s utility for offender profiling is limited [38]. Furthermore, Table 2 shows that a small minority of filicides had adult victims but had offenders who were under 17 years of age.…”

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Toward a more holistic understanding of filicide: A multidisciplinary analysis of 32 years of U.S. arrest data

Mariano¹,

Chan²,

Myers³

2014

Forensic Science International

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Filicide is the killing one or more children by a parent, stepparent, or other parental figure. This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of U.S. filicide, drawn from 94,146 filicide arrests tabulated over a 32-year period in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Supplementary Homicide Reports (SHR). Filicides comprised 15% of all murders during this period. Modal victim age was less than one year old. One-third of victims were under a year old; over two-thirds were age six or less. Fathers were as likely as mothers to kill infants. The mean age of offenders was 32 years with a mode of 22 years, and nearly three-quarters were age 18 to 45. Female offenders were notably younger than their male counterparts. Black (or African American) offenders were significantly overrepresented in filicide compared to Whites. Most common killing methods included using hands and feet, strangulation, beating, asphyxiation, drowning, and defenestration. Stepparents were not at higher risk of filicide than genetic parents, but were twice as likely to kill using firearms. Synthesizing these results with studies from other fields, we propose three transdisciplinary, empirically-informed filicide categories primarily defined by effects of (1) psychopathology associated with neurotransmitter disturbances, (2) gender and sex hormones, and (3) evolutionary motives. Approaching filicide using this proposed hypothetical framework for future research may help identify at-risk populations and improve prevention and treatment.

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“…blunt objects) weapons (e.g. Chan & Heide, ; Chan, Heide, & Myers, ; Beauregard, Stone, Proulx, & Michaud, ; Fisher & Beech, ; Greenall & Richardson, ; Harbot & Mokros, ; Proulx, Blais, & Beauregard, ; Myers & Chan, ; Myers, Eggleston, & Smoak, ; Safarik, ; Safarik, Jarvis, & Nussbaum, ). However, it should be noted that the majority of past research examining the weapon used in sexual homicides committed by male sexual murderers consists of mixed types of victims (i.e.…”

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Choice of Weapon or Weapon of Choice? Examining the Interactions between Victim Characteristics in Single‐victim Male Sexual Homicide Offenders

Chan

Beauregard

2014

Journal Invest Psychology

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As most studies report that the majority of sexual homicide offenders (SHOs) prefer to kill with their own hands, research has largely neglected to examine the choice of weapon by these offenders. The US Supplementary Homicide Reports show that although a large number of SHOs murder their victim using personal weapons (e.g. bare hands and manual or ligature strangulation), the majority use an alternative weapon (e.g. edged weapons, contact weapons, and firearms). The present study hypothesises that the choice of weapon is in part influenced by victim characteristics. To identify specific combinations and interactions between victim characteristics and the choice of a personal or edged weapon during the commission of a sexual homicide, a combination of exhaustive chi‐square automatic interaction detector and conjunctive analysis is used on a sample of 2,472 single‐victim male SHOs from a 36‐year period of Supplementary Homicide Report data (1976–2011). Findings show that SHOs choose their weapon according to some victim characteristics. Implications of the findings are discussed in light of police suspect prioritisation. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Juvenile and Adult Offenders Arrested for Sexual Homicide: An Analysis of Victim–Offender Relationship and Weapon Used by Race*

Cited by 47 publications

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Sexual Homicide by Older Male Offenders

Sexual Homicide by Older Male Offenders

Toward a more holistic understanding of filicide: A multidisciplinary analysis of 32 years of U.S. arrest data

Choice of Weapon or Weapon of Choice? Examining the Interactions between Victim Characteristics in Single‐victim Male Sexual Homicide Offenders

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