Homicide Outside the Family Sphere: Confession in Police Interrogation, Offender Motivation and Characteristics – An Exploratory Study

This study aimed to describe extrafamilial homicide offenders’ confessions in police interrogation. The Quebec Coroner’s office supplied data from 76 homicide files including coroner reports. Pearson’s Chi-squared analyses showed that the offenders were significantly different according to confessio...

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Autores principales: Bahary, Pascal (Autor) ; Léveillée, Suzanne (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2025
En: Homicide studies
Año: 2025, Volumen: 29, Número: 2, Páginas: 205-227
Acceso en línea: Volltext (kostenfrei)
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Palabras clave:
victim/offender relationship
profiling < policing
investigation < policing
mental illness < correlates
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Sumario:This study aimed to describe extrafamilial homicide offenders’ confessions in police interrogation. The Quebec Coroner’s office supplied data from 76 homicide files including coroner reports. Pearson’s Chi-squared analyses showed that the offenders were significantly different according to confession type for the method used and the antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorder traits. A two-step cluster analysis revealed three profiles: Confession—quarreler and sexual; Confession—quarreler and mental illness; No confession—quarreler and criminality. Our findings further our understanding of confessions in police interrogation by adding psychological variables and could allow investigators to refine their interrogation strategies.
ISSN:1552-6720
DOI:10.1177/10887679221139141