@article{ref1,
title="Stranger sexual homicide: an exploratory behavioural analysis of offender crime scene actions",
journal="Journal of sexual aggression",
year="2020",
author="Greenall, Paul V. and Wright, Michelle",
volume="26",
number="2",
pages="163-177",
abstract="This study explores the role and function of homicidal and sexual violence in cases of stranger sexual homicide. The aim was to determine whether the instrumental/expressive hypothesis of physical violence and the overt/covert hypothesis of sexual violence applies to this crime. The method involved an analysis of the crime scene actions of 81 British stranger sexual killers using multidimensional scaling. <br><br>RESULTS suggest the instrumental/expressive hypothesis of physical violence and the overt/covert hypothesis of sexual violence does apply to stranger sexual homicide but they manifest as instrumental/overt and expressive/covert superordinate themes comprising four sub-themes reflecting rape, impersonal sexual assault, overkill and control. Although these superordinate themes can explain some stranger sexual homicides, a key hypothesis of this study is that the four sub-themes can also combine into different superordinate themes, knowledge of which can aid our understanding of this serious and deviant form of interpersonal violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-2600",
doi="10.1080/13552600.2019.1606948",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2019.1606948"
}