2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2013.09.005
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Consistency in crime site selection: An investigation of crime sites used by serial sex offenders across crime series

Abstract: Purpose: Knowing sites used by serial sex offenders to commit their crimes is highly beneficial for criminal investigations. However, environmental choices of serial sex offenders remain unclear to this date. Considering the challenges these offenders pose to law enforcement, the study aims to identify sites serial sex offenders use to encounter and release their victims and investigate their stability across crime series. Methods: The study uses latent class analysis (LCA) to identify victim encounter and rel… Show more

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“…Bernasco, ; Goodwill & Alison, ; Markson et al, ; Tonkin et al, ; ). In recent studies (Deslauriers‐Varin & Beauregard, , ; Lundrigan et al, ), the consistency displayed by serial sex offenders with regard to the crime location and characteristics of the crime site selected (i.e. environmental consistency) was also examined.…”
Section: Criminal Career and Crime Specialisationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Bernasco, ; Goodwill & Alison, ; Markson et al, ; Tonkin et al, ; ). In recent studies (Deslauriers‐Varin & Beauregard, , ; Lundrigan et al, ), the consistency displayed by serial sex offenders with regard to the crime location and characteristics of the crime site selected (i.e. environmental consistency) was also examined.…”
Section: Criminal Career and Crime Specialisationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“… Please note that the current study is based on a dataset used in prior published studies examining serial sex offenders' consistency (Deslauriers‐Varin & Beauregard, ; ; Harbers et al, ).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Data were analyzed with Mplus 7 . LCA has been used in various criminological and psychological studies examining criminal behavior . LCA, which assumes that discrete latent variables underlie a specific population, helps identify underlying patterns in data or subgroups of individuals who share important behavioral characteristics .…”
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confidence: 99%
“…In terms of sex offences, past research has shown that choice-structuring properties play an important role in an offender's decision making process. During the pre-crime phase, environmental and situational factors were found to be significantly associated with the hunting process of serial sex offenders (Beauregard, Proulx et al, 2007;, target selection (Deslauriers-Varin & Beauregard, 2010), and crime site selection (Hewitt, Beauregard, & Davies, 2012;Deslauriers-Varin & Beauregard, 2014). Research investigating the criminal event have also shown how choice-structuring properties influenced the offender's decision-making process Beauregard, Proulx et al, 2007;Balemba & Beauregard, 2013…”
Section: Choice-structuring Propertiesmentioning
confidence: 99%