@article{ref1,
title="Criminal expertise and sexual violence: comparing the crime-commission process involved in sexual burglary and sexual robbery",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2022",
author="Reale, Kylie S. and Beauregard, Eric and Chopin, Julien",
volume="49",
number="1",
pages="98-116",
abstract="Criminal expertise relates to the notion that some individuals may develop domain-specific offending skills that differentiate them from those with less skills or experience (i.e., novices). In the expertise literature, burglary has emerged as a distinct type of &quot;expert&quot; offense, therefore the current study sought to determine whether criminal expertise is more evident in the crime-commission process of sexual burglary compared to sexual robbery. We used binary logistic regression to compare the pre-crime, crime, and post-crime behaviors of 870 cases of hybrid sexual assault that occurred during the commission of either a burglary (N = 319) (or) robbery (N = 479), both of which involved personal theft from a stranger victim. <br><br>FINDINGS suggest that the crime commission process of sexual burglary involves a more sophisticated modus operandi and greater expertise in detection avoidance (e.g., strategies to protect their identity and destroying and removing evidence) compared to sexual robbery.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/00938548211023541",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00938548211023541"
}