MATCH: A New Approach for Differentiating & Linking Series of Sex Worker Homicides and Sexual Assaults

Sex workers as a group are one of the more common targets in serial homicide, yet the most likely to go unsolved. Part of the reason for this is the difficulty in linking individual crime scenes to a series, especially in those series where offenders not only target sex worker victims but also targe...

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Authors: Salfati, C. Gabrielle (Author) ; Sorochinski, Marina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 63, Issue: 9, Pages: 1794-1824
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