Citation

Gönültaş BM, Şahin B. Int. J. Offender Ther. Comp. Criminol. 2018; 62(5): 1164-1178.

Affiliation

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0306624X16673373

PMID

29536756

Abstract

A great deal of attention has been devoted to sexual molestation cases, both in theory and in practice. Child molesters are versatile and are not easily identified. Various theories and tactics, the most contemporary of which is environmental criminology, have been developed to find those criminals. Locations of victims, crime scenes, and distances among them as well as other situational variables are used to predict possible future offences in environmental criminology. This study applies the theory to sexual molestation crimes in Istanbul. Dependent distance variables are found to be correlated with several situational variables in a selected sample of 127 extra-familial child sexual molestation cases.

Language: en

Keywords

environmental criminology; journey-to-crime; journey-to-victim; sexual molestation cases in Istanbul; stranger criminals