@article{ref1,
title="Male-on-female sexual homicides in Sweden, 1990 to 2013: a population-based controlled study of incidents, victims, and offenders",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2019",
author="Sturup, Joakim and Rodre, Sara and Karlberg, Daniel and von Vogelsang, Eva and Rying, Mikael and Caman, Shilan",
volume="63",
number="9",
pages="1557-1574",
abstract="To date, systematic studies of sexual homicides from Europe are scarce, in which none have been conducted in Sweden. This study aims to describe male-on-female sexual homicides in Sweden and differentiate from corresponding nonsexual homicides. Unsolved and solved sexual homicide ( n = 33) cases were identified in a database containing all homicides in Sweden between 1990 and 2013 ( N = 2,126), and subsequently data from forensic psychiatric evaluations were collected for convicted offenders. Male-on-female sexual homicides constituted 1.6% of all homicides and the clearance rate was 82%, which is comparable with the 83% overall clearance rate but took longer time to solve. Three factors differentiated sexual from nonsexual homicides: strangulation, younger age of the victim, and the absence of eyewitnesses. In solved cases, distance from the offender's home to the crime scene was strongly correlated with time to clearance. A majority of the offenders suffered from personality disorders, while other diagnoses were uncommon.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X18786609",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X18786609"
}