Predicting Presence of Offender's Criminal Record From Antisocial Lifestyle Indicators of Homicide Victims

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 541-557

  Santtila, Pekka ^a   Runtti, Markus ^b   Mokros, Andreas ^c  

^a Poliisiammattikorkeakoulu   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antisocial personality disorder; Criminal record; Homicide; Offender profiling; Victim characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIMINOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOPATHY; STATISTICS; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MOTIVATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 2142763781     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260504262964     Document Type: Article

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