Linking criminal history to crime scene behavior in single-victim and serial homicide: Implications for offender profiling research

Homicide Studies

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-31

  Trojan, Carrie ^a   Salfati, C Gabrielle ^b  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

crime scene behavior; criminal history; Homicide; multidimensional scaling analysis; serial homicide; smallest space analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951478260     PISSN: 10887679     EISSN: 15526720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088767910397281     Document Type: Article

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