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Offender profiling [Documento electrónico] : a review, critique, and an investigation of the influence of context, perception, and motivations on sexual offending / Shannon Lynn Vettor.- Birmingham : [s.n.], 2011.- 1 CD-ROM ; 12 cm
Thesis submitted to the College of Life and Environmental Sciences of the University of Birmingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Ficheiro de 3,05 MB em formato PDF (368 p.).
PERFIL PSICOLÓGICO, CRIME SEXUAL, TRATAMENTO DE DELINQUENTES, CRIME CONTRA MULHERES, TESE, REINO UNIDO
This thesis investigates the underlying assumptions of Offender Profiling and the ability to infer offender characteristics from crime scene characteristics of sexual offences, taking into consideration the potential mediating effects of the context and situational factors surrounding the offence, the offender’s perceptions or implicit theories, and their motivations to sexually offend. Data examined were collected during the evaluation of the Sex Offender Treatment Programme and consisted of men who committed either a rape or sexual murder against adult women. Chapter 1 and 2 review the Offender Profiling literature and offer critiques and areas to further examine, such as the affects of context, perceptions, and motivations on the A(ctions) to C(haracteristics) equation of Offender Profiling. Chapter 3 outlines the different methodologies used in the subsequent chapters. Chapter 4 compares the characteristics of rapists and sexual murderers and found very few differences in both offender and offence characteristics. It also looked at the pathway to offending of sexual aggressors of adult women and found three, which were supported by previous literature: Angry, Sadistic, and Sexually Compensatory. Chapter 5 looked at the effects of various contextual variables on the relationship between offender characteristics and offence characteristics and found that the location of the offence, and use drugs just prior to the offence influenced the ability to infer certain offender characteristics from offence characteristics. Chapter 6 investigates the inclusion of perceptual aspects in the form of the offender’s implicit theories and the effect these have on the A(ctions) to C(haracteristics) equation. No significant mediated relationships were found. Chapter 7 examines the effect of the offender’s motivations to offend and how this would affect the ability to infer offender characteristics from crime scene variables. Four motivations were found within the current sample, Angry, Sadistic, Sexually Compensatory, and Sexually Opportunistic. There were no significant mediating relationships found between the motivations, offender characteristics, and offence characteristics. The results of the thesis are discussed in terms of both pragmatic and theoretical support of Offender Profiling and the limitations of the research.