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Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft?
Past studies on criminal expertise showed that some sexual offenders possess skills related to avoiding detection. An important question that remains unaddressed in the literature, however, is whether unsolved cases can be used as a “proxy” for expertise. The present study sought to provide the firs...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10696905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34075788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X211022651 |
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author | Reale, Kylie S. Beauregard, Eric Chopin, Julien |
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description | Past studies on criminal expertise showed that some sexual offenders possess skills related to avoiding detection. An important question that remains unaddressed in the literature, however, is whether unsolved cases can be used as a “proxy” for expertise. The present study sought to provide the first empirical examination of criminal expertise in a sample of solved (n = 732) and unsolved (n = 309) stranger sexual assault cases involving theft. We used binary logistic regression to determine whether behavioral indicators of criminal expertise predicted case status. Findings showed that the most relevant factors related to case solvability were not related to detection avoidance strategies used by the offender, but rather, whether semen evidence was found at the crime scene and the number of sexual acts performed against the victim. Interestingly, cases involving fetish theft were also more likely to remain unsolved. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-106969052023-12-06 Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? Reale, Kylie S. Beauregard, Eric Chopin, Julien Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol Articles Past studies on criminal expertise showed that some sexual offenders possess skills related to avoiding detection. An important question that remains unaddressed in the literature, however, is whether unsolved cases can be used as a “proxy” for expertise. The present study sought to provide the first empirical examination of criminal expertise in a sample of solved (n = 732) and unsolved (n = 309) stranger sexual assault cases involving theft. We used binary logistic regression to determine whether behavioral indicators of criminal expertise predicted case status. Findings showed that the most relevant factors related to case solvability were not related to detection avoidance strategies used by the offender, but rather, whether semen evidence was found at the crime scene and the number of sexual acts performed against the victim. Interestingly, cases involving fetish theft were also more likely to remain unsolved. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. SAGE Publications 2021-06-02 2024-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10696905/ /pubmed/34075788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X211022651 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Articles Reale, Kylie S. Beauregard, Eric Chopin, Julien Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title | Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title_full | Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title_fullStr | Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title_short | Is Criminal Expertise a Feature of Unsolved Sexual Assault Involving Theft? |
title_sort | is criminal expertise a feature of unsolved sexual assault involving theft? |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10696905/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34075788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X211022651 |
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