Sex offenders of the elderly: Classification by motive, typology, and predictors of severity of crime

Burgess, Ann Wolbert; Commons, Michael Lamport; Safarik, Mark; Looper, Ruthann Rockwell; Ross, Sara Nora

doi:10.1016/j.avb.2007.02.006

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“…However, in recent years the FBI and several of their retired profilers have adopted a more scientific approach to behavioural investigative research, publishing empirical papers in several peer‐reviewed journals (Hazelwood & Warren, 1999, 2003; Safarik & Jarvis, 2005; Safarik, Jarvis, & Nussbaum, 2000, 2002). These articles provide evidence of a new, more integrative approach between FBI profilers, clinicians, law enforcement, and academics to produce innovative and theoretically sound contributions more in line with the concept of BIA outlined herein (Burgess, Commons, Safarik, Looper, & Ross, 2007; Myers, Husted, Safarik, & O'Toole, 2006).…”

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Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice

Alison

Goodwill

Almond

et al. 2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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This paper outlines a brief history of the evolutionary trajectory of offender profiling and illustrates the three broad strands (investigative, clinical, and statistical ) that emerged in the 1970s-1990s. We then indicate how a more pragmatic, interdisciplinary practitioner-academic model has emerged in recent years and go on to describe the range of contributions that are now made across the criminal justice field. More recently termed 'behavioural investigative advice' in the UK, the paper then argues that whilst a range of potential contributions exist (from linking crimes, risk assessment, provision of bad character evidence, investigative interviewing advice, to geoprofiling), the nature of the process by which that contribution occurs is not yet well understood. The review of these potential contributions concludes with several suggestions and recommendations for further research and relevant methodologies by which to conduct that research. This includes the requirement to combine conceptual and theory-driven models alongside empirically driven statistical approaches, as well as the requirement to more precisely delineate and describe how contributions are made by behavioural experts through cognitive task analyses and associated methods.Several countries' police services regularly employ the assistance of psychologists in relation to the prevention, management, and investigation of crime (Alison, 2005).Although some of what they are engaged in might be described as offender profiling, the support from psychologists over the last 10 years, in the UK at least, might be more accurately described as behavioural investigative advice (BIA; ACPO, 2006). The older term offender profiling has developed an almost mythic status in popular literature and drama (Herndon, 2007), although, as this paper will demonstrate, in its best understood but narrow definition, it has failed to make much operational impact.

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Section: The Pastmentioning

confidence: 93%

Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice

Alison

Goodwill

Almond

et al. 2010

Legal Criminol Psychol

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“…Rape typologies arose in the 1970s and 1980s in the criminal justice and psychology literatures [ 34 , 35 ]. These typologies “taxonomically” classify the behavioral, motivational, and cognitive characteristics of perpetrators [ 36 , 37 ], and have been used to better understand the etiology of rape, as well as to predict perpetrator behavior, assess risk of recidivism, and identify appropriate treatment for offenders based on type [ 37 , 38 ]. Data in the present study are largely collected from victims and bystanders, so our typology is not perpetrator-focused.…”

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Sexual Violence against Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Mongolia: A Mixed-Methods Study of Scope and Consequences

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The role of sexual violence in health and human rights-related outcomes, including HIV, is receiving increasing attention globally, yet the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of sexual violence have been little-studied among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women in low and middle income countries. A mixed-methods study with quantitative and qualitative phases was conducted among MSM and transgender women in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Methods included respondent-driven sampling (RDS) with structured socio-behavioral surveys (N = 313) as well as qualitative methods including 30 in-depth interviews and 2 focus group discussions. Forced sex in the last three years was reported by 14.7% of respondents (RDS-weighted estimate, 95%CI: 9.4–20.1; crude estimate 16.1%, 49/307) in the quantitative phase. A descriptive typology of common scenarios was constructed based on the specific incidents of sexual violence shared by respondents in the qualitative phase (37 incidents across 28 interviews and 2 focus groups). Eight major types of sexual violence were identified, most frequent of which were bias-motivated street violence and alcohol-involved party-related violence. Many vulnerabilities to and consequences of sexual violence described during the qualitative phase were also independently associated with forced sex, including alcohol use at least once per week (AOR = 3.39, 95% CI:1.69–6.81), and having received payment for sex (AOR = 2.77, 95% CI:1.14–6.75). Building on the promising strategies used in other settings to prevent and respond to sexual violence, similar strengthening of legal and social sector responses may provide much needed support to survivors and prevent future sexual violence.

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“…Enhancing opportunities for evading sexual victimization and reducing recidivism rates among sexual offenders necessitates exploring the common motivations underlying these crimes (Brantingham & Brantingham, 1993;Burgess, Commons, Safarik, Looper, & Ross, 2007;Mustaine & Tewksbury, 2009;Robertiello & Terry, 2007). However, the study of motivation is considered by some to be relatively unproductive in terms of crime prevention.…”

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confidence: 98%