@article{ref1,
title="Profiling Korean sex crimes: offender characteristics and crime scene actions",
journal="Journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling",
year="2020",
author="Kim, Sunghwan and Almond, Louise and Eyre, Marie",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="59-73",
abstract="The present study aimed to examine the demographic information of sex offenders in South Korea and explore whether a U.K. thematic model of criminal behaviour could be replicated in the Korean context. The 27 variables of crime scene actions derived from 50 Korean sexual offences through a content analysis were analysed with smallest space analysis. Chi-square was also administered to explore the differences in offender characteristics among behavioural themes. Consequently, three separate action themes, hostility-involvement, theft, and control, were revealed. Next, each case was assigned to one of the dominant or hybrid themes, with 84% of the total cases being classified to the dominant themes. Moreover, there were significant differences in four offender characteristics between the themes: &quot;previous conviction of robbery,&quot; &quot;previous conviction of sexual crime,&quot; &quot;knowing the victim,&quot; and &quot;vehicle use.&quot; These outcomes have implications for the development of the Korean profiling system.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1544-4759",
doi="10.1002/jip.1539",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jip.1539"
}