Citation

Beauregard E, Martineau M. J. Interpers. Violence 2016; 31(1): 4-25.

Affiliation

Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260514555129

PMID

25355862

Abstract

According to the organized-disorganized model, organized sexual murderers adopt specific behaviors during the commission of their crimes that contribute to avoiding police detection. The current study examines the effect of sexual murderers' organized behaviors on their ability to both delay and/or avoid police detection. Using a combination of negative binomial and logistic regression analyses on a sample of 350 sexual murder cases, findings showed that although both measures of delaying and avoiding detection are positively correlated, different behavioral patterns were observed. For instance, offenders who moved the victim's body were more likely to avoid detection but the victim's body was likely to be recovered faster. Moreover, victim characteristics have an impact on both measures; however, this effect disappears for the measure of delaying detection once the organized behaviors are introduced. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Language: en