Body Disposal Patterns of Sexual Murderers: Implications for Offender Profiling

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-89

  Beauregard, Eric ^a   Field, Jessica ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body disposal; Criminal investigation; Offender profiling; Sexual homicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949128318     PISSN: 08820783     EISSN: 19366469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11896-008-9027-6     Document Type: Article

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