CRIM 316 Lecture 5: lect5.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 316
• Professor: Eric Beauregard

Document Summary

Target selection patterns: rapists use target selection patterns that are dependent upon the environment; sex offenders need to adapt their target selection patterns for two reasons: Criminal mobility = number of changes of locations during the criminal event (i. e. , encounter, attack, crime, and victim release) Victim resistance = more mobility (offender will need to move from one location to another in order to commit crime: adding modus operandi (mo) (specific strategies to commit crime) Problems of definition: no legal definition, confusion of term (lust, serial, mass nurders, gender and age of victims. Definition from the fbi: a murder is a sexual nature when it includes one of following: Exposure of the sexual parts of the victim"s body. Insertion of foreign objects into the victim"s body cavities. Evidence of sexual intercourse (oral, anal, vaginal) Evidence of substitute sexual activity, interest, or sadistic fantasy. ): 1975-1995 = 153 serial murderer killing more than 1400 victims. Usa: 2% of sex murderers = serial.