RT Article
T1 Male-on-Female Sexual Homicides in Sweden, 1990 to 2013: A Population-Based Controlled Study of Incidents, Victims, and Offenders
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 9
SP 1557
OP 1574
A1 Sturup, Joakim
A1 Rodre, Sara
A1 Karlberg, Daniel
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1670853365
AB To date, systematic studies of sexual homicides from Europe are scarce, in which none have been conducted in Sweden. This study aims to describe male-on-female sexual homicides in Sweden and differentiate from corresponding nonsexual homicides. Unsolved and solved sexual homicide (n = 33) cases were identified in a database containing all homicides in Sweden between 1990 and 2013 (N = 2,126), and subsequently data from forensic psychiatric evaluations were collected for convicted offenders. Male-on-female sexual homicides constituted 1.6% of all homicides and the clearance rate was 82%, which is comparable with the 83% overall clearance rate but took longer time to solve. Three factors differentiated sexual from nonsexual homicides: strangulation, younger age of the victim, and the absence of eyewitnesses. In solved cases, distance from the offender's home to the crime scene was strongly correlated with time to clearance. A majority of the offenders suffered from personality disorders, while other diagnoses were uncommon.
K1 Sexual homicide
K1 Violence
K1 Rape
K1 Sexual offenders
K1 Homicide
K1 Sexualmord
K1 Sexualverbrechen
K1 Sexualtaten
K1 Sexualstraftaten
K1 Studie
K1 Schweden
DO 10.1177/0306624X18786609