Finnish sexual homicides: Offence and offender characteristics

Häkkänen‐Nyholm, Helinä; Repo-Tiihonen, Eila; Lindberg, Nina; Salenius, Stephan; Weizmann‐Henelius, Ghitta

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.03.030

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“…Offenders were concentrated into a narrower range with a higher proportion in their 20s and 30s. These findings mirror research into homicide (Cooper & Smith, 2011;Francis et al, 2004), sexual offending (Greenall & West, 2007;Muir & Macleod, 2003), and sexual homicide (Gerard et al, 2007;Greenfeld, 1997;Häkkänen-Nyholm et al, 2009). More specifically, they support previous research (Shackelford, 2002) that found young, reproductive-aged females to be over-represented as victims of sexual homicide, whereas young men were similarly over-represented among offenders.…”

Section: Demographicssupporting

confidence: 83%

“…Similar to research into homicide (Brookman & Maguire, 2003;Francis et al, 2004;Osborne, 2012), stranger rape (Greenall & West, 2007), and sexual homicide (Beauregard & Martineau, 2013;Chan & Heide, 2008;Gerard et al, 2007;Häkkänen-Nyholm et al, 2009;Langevin et al, 1988;Nicole & Proulx, 2007a), most cases involved a weapon. The fact that weapons were mostly obtained from the crime scene supports the idea that many offenses were opportunistic, or at least the killings were.…”

Section: A Profile Of Adult Male-on-female Stranger Sexual Homicidementioning

confidence: 92%

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Adult Male-on-Female Stranger Sexual Homicide

Greenall

Richardson

2014

Homicide Studies

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Research into stranger sexual homicide remains limited as is our understanding of this crime, and this can hinder criminal investigations and the assessment and management of offenders. This study aims to address this. Using data gathered by various British police forces, this study presents a descriptive profile of adult maleon-female stranger sexual homicide in Great Britain in recent years. Along with demographic and occupational data on offenders and victims, the criminal histories of offenders are illustrated as are their offense behaviors. The results are discussed in light of similar research, and future directions and implications are considered.

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Section: Demographicssupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: A Profile Of Adult Male-on-female Stranger Sexual Homicidementioning

confidence: 92%

Adult Male-on-Female Stranger Sexual Homicide

Greenall

Richardson

2014

Homicide Studies

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“…However, contrary to these same theoretical models, the findings suggest that being exposed to or victim of such adverse experiences is not enough, it is the accumulation of several of these experiences that increase the risk of sexual homicide. Moreover, these adverse childhood experiences remain significant while taking into account various problematic behaviors in childhood that have been typically associated with sexual homicide (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28). It is suggested that theoretical models of sexual homicide be revised to include a component taking into account the amount of adverse childhood experiences.…”

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confidence: 99%

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Criminal Extremity: New Evidence for Sexual Homicide

DeLisi

Beauregard

2017

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Adverse childhood experiences are associated with a wide range of behavioral, health, and psychiatric deficits and have recently been used to study the development of serious offending careers. Unfortunately, this research paradigm has largely ignored forensic populations. This study utilized the adverse childhood experiences framework to examine the associations between exposure to violence, victimization, and total adverse childhood experiences on sexual homicide using a sample of 616 incarcerated adult male sexual offenders from Canada 85 of whom committed sexual homicide. Epidemiological tables of odds revealed that a gradient of adverse childhood experiences was associated with sexual homicide, but that the most significant risks were for offenders who had the most extensive abuse histories. In adjusted models, exposure to violence, victimization, and total adverse childhood experiences increased the odds of sexual homicide by 334%, 249%, and 546%, respectively. These effects intensified in models adjusted for childhood enuresis, cruelty to animals, parental abandonment, deviant sexual behaviors, poor self-image, and sexual problems to 559%, 326%, and 849%, respectively. The adverse childhood experiences framework is a systematic way to organize the criminogenic developmental sequela in sexual homicide.

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“…As our cases, victims are usually females [9,13], but sex related homicides can involve, as well as, heterosexual and homosexual relationships [8,32]. Generally, most of the victims (65-90%) are strangers or casual acquaintances, rather than a consensual sexual partner of the offenders [8].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Several studies have addressed the question of whether sexual murderers differ from other offenders [3][4][5][6][7]. Compared to non-sexual homicide offenders, psychopaths are significantly more likely to commit sexual homicide [8]. Indeed, personality disorder, psychopathy, paraphilia, paraphiliarelated disorders and sadistic sexual fantasy may, usually, explain this terrible form of violence [9].…”

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Sexual Homicide Committed by a Family Member: Report of Two Cases and Discussion of Its Motivation Factors

Youssef¹,

Wiem²,

Zouheir³

et al. 2017

J Forensic Med

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Sexual homicide is a distinctive form of homicide and an extreme form of sexual violence. This phenomenon has been well addressed in psychiatric, psychological and forensic literatures. Nevertheless, sometimes it is difficult to understand the motivations behind a sexual homicide mainly when it occurs within the closed family environment.We report two cases of women's sexual homicide committed by a family member, other than a sexual partner or an ex-partner. The sexual character was confirmed by laboratory evidences which also allowed the offender identification. In both cases, the offenders did not have any history of violence conviction and were not under substance abuse influence. In addition, psychological autopsy has not revealed any psychiatric disorder of the offenders.In this paper, we describe the findings, we discuss the characteristics of this type of murder and its motivation factors related to our socio-cultural and legislative context.

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Finnish sexual homicides: Offence and offender characteristics

Cited by 67 publications

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Adult Male-on-Female Stranger Sexual Homicide

Adult Male-on-Female Stranger Sexual Homicide

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Criminal Extremity: New Evidence for Sexual Homicide

Sexual Homicide Committed by a Family Member: Report of Two Cases and Discussion of Its Motivation Factors

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