RT Article
T1 Criminal history and social disadvantage as predictors of the severity of violent offending
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 42
IS 2/3
SP 139
OP 155
A1 Suonpää, Karoliina
A2 Aaltonen, Mikko
A2 Kivivuori, Janne
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1753638828
AB Lethal violence is often seen as the tip of the iceberg and homicide perpetrators are seen as manifesting the most extreme number of various risk factors. This article explores whether that is the case. Using a unique data set combining data from several administrative registers with a nationally representative sample of different types of police-reported violence committed during 2010-2011 (N = 26,303 offenders) in Finland, we compare the offenders of five different types of violence (minor assault, assault, aggravated assault, attempted homicide, and completed homicide). In addition, we examine the association between the severity of violence and prior criminal history and different types of strain. The results give partial support to the hypothesis: the more serious the violence, the more crime prone and socially disadvantaged the offender. Yet, lethal offenders do not stand out alone; the division, rather, appears to be between offenders of serious (aggravated assault, attempted homicide, completed homicide) and less serious (minor assault, assault) forms of violence.
K1 Homicide
K1 Criminal History
K1 Intergenerational transmission
K1 register based
K1 socio-economic status
K1 Violence
DO 10.1080/01924036.2016.1270843