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PROFILING HOMICIDE OFFENDERS: TOWARDS A NEW OFFENDER PROFILING MODEL

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© 2009 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. When examining the literature on profiling homicide offenders, some criticisms can be formulated. One of these criticisms includes the lack of an explicit theoretical framework, encompassing all the different concepts used to explain offense-offender relationships. In this chapter, a contextualized approach to homicide offending will be presented, together with a possible method for obtaining and analyzing relevant offense information. This new model of offense pathways provides an overview of the psychological processes the offender experienced during his or her offense, emphasizes the importance of a contextualized perspective, and is consistent with the view that the homicide offense is a process that develops over time. Results of a preliminary study on the narratives of 48 homicide offenders, based on this new contextualized model, will be presented. Finally, the implications of using such a contextualized approach, for offender profiling, treatment and interviewing strategies will be discussed.
Book: HOMICIDE: TRENDS, CAUSES AND PREVENTION
Pages: 1 - 48
Number of pages: 48
ISBN:978-1-60741-625-8
Publication year:2009