“We Boil at Different Degrees”: Factors Associated With Severity of Attack in Sexual Killing

Degree of injury, as measured by the Homicide Injury Scale (HIS), was examined to advance understanding of the dynamics of sexual killing. A total of 350 nonserial, male sexual killers were included, and the different ways that the sexual element of their offenses and the act of killing were connect...

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Main Author: Stefanska, Ewa B. (Author)
Contributors: Higgs, Tamsin ; Carter, Adam J. ; Beech, Anthony R.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of interpersonal violence
Year: 2021, Volume: 36, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 2409-2429
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Keywords:
Anger
Classification
Homicide
Sexual murder