Naked body disposal: an indicator of the type of sexual homicide
Hana Georgoulis,
Eric Beauregard,
Julien Chopin
Abstract:Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether sexual homicide offenders (SHO) who dispose of the victim’s body naked present with particular crime scene characteristics.
Design/methodology/approach
This study aims to answer this question through the use of a sequential logistic regression to test the individual effects of each set of crime scene variables against the manner of disposal using a sample of 662 solved cases of extrafamilial sexual homicide from an international database.
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