Event Locations in Extra-Familial Child Sexual Molestation Cases: The Istanbul Example

A great deal of attention has been devoted to sexual molestation cases, both in theory and in practice. Child molesters are versatile and are not easily identified. Various theories and tactics, the most contemporary of which is environmental criminology, have been developed to find those criminals....

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Autor principal: Gönültaş, Burak M. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Sahin, Bahadir
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
En: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Año: 2018, Volumen: 62, Número: 5, Páginas: 1164-1178
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Palabras clave:
Environmental criminology
Sexual molestation cases in Istanbul
Journey-to-crime
Journey-to-victim
Stranger criminals
Missbrauch
Kindesmissbrauch
Sexuelle Belästigung
Familie
Türkei
Extra-familial child molesters
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Sumario:A great deal of attention has been devoted to sexual molestation cases, both in theory and in practice. Child molesters are versatile and are not easily identified. Various theories and tactics, the most contemporary of which is environmental criminology, have been developed to find those criminals. Locations of victims, crime scenes, and distances among them as well as other situational variables are used to predict possible future offences in environmental criminology. This study applies the theory to sexual molestation crimes in Istanbul. Dependent distance variables are found to be correlated with several situational variables in a selected sample of 127 extra-familial child sexual molestation cases.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X16673373