RT Article
T1 Sexual Homicide Targeting Children: Exploring Offender, Victim, and Modus Operandi Factors
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 9
SP 1663
OP 1680
A1 Skott, Sara
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/167085843X
AB Sexual child homicides are rare, even among sexual homicides, and no previous study has compared sexual child homicide with nonsexual child homicides. To address this gap in research, this study aims to compare sexual child homicide offenders (n = 8) with two comparison groups: sexual adult homicide offenders (n = 89) and nonsexual child homicide offenders (n = 176) regarding victim, offender, and modus operandi factors. Using bivariate analysis, the results show that although sexual child homicide offenders appear more similar to other sexual homicide offenders than to homicide offenders, sexual offenders targeting children differ from both groups on certain variables. Sexual child homicide offenders more often used strangulation as a method of killing, had intoxicated victims, used multiple locations, and destroyed evidence after the murder. The study concludes that sexual homicide offenders targeting children should be considered distinct from other offenders and that the salient characteristics linked to sadism and instrumentality should be further examined.
K1 Sexual homicide
K1 Sexual child homicide
K1 Child homicide
K1 Comparative research
K1 Sadism
K1 Sexualmord
K1 Sexualmord an Kind
K1 Vergleichsstudie
K1 Sadismus
DO 10.1177/0306624X19825814