Serial and single-victim rapists: Differences in crime-scene violence, interpersonal involvement, and criminal sophistication

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 227-237

  Park, Jisun ^a   Schlesinger, Louis B ^a   Pinizzotto, Anthony J ^b   Davis, Edward F ^b  

^a JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

^b Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRIME; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; MALE; RAPE; VICTIM; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAPE; RECURRENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 42949090748     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.804     Document Type: Article

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