a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Mass murder Case-study Psychopathy Borderline personality disorder Predatory violence Depression This paper presents a fully documented case of a mass murder. The offender willingly underwent a psychological assessment and discussed his motivation and subjective experience of the slaying. The researchers also had access to the official records maintained by crimi...

Current research on domestic violence indicates that intimate partner violence arrest rates have risen as a direct result of the implementation of mandatory and preferred arrest domestic violence laws. However, this research also suggests that part of this increase can be attributed to an increase in the arrest rate of females in cases of domestic assault. In addition, the arrest of both partie...

The aim of this investigation was to undertake an exploratory analysis of child care providers who sexually offend against children and adolescents and the circumstances related to these offences. Archival Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) reports were obtained from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and demographic and criminal characteristics for the offender, as well as i...

This article illustrates how the Aboriginal female drug user is responded to as an expected offender based on the intersection of her gender, race, and class. Drawing on the findings of a national Canadian study documenting the lived experiences of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit female drug users, we argue that the strengthening of cultural identity can potentially disrupt this expected status...

The theoretical foundations for building a separate forensic methodology investigating homicides committed in connection with domestic violence have been developed. A scientific justification the differentiation of relevant type homicide system classification criminal offences related to has proposed. Certain elements this and their specificity context developing recommendations identified. Cha...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent and nature of spontaneous attributional activity elicited by a newspaper report of child sexual abuse. METHOD One hundred and seventy-six respondents, who were recruited through appeals placed in the letters column of a local newspaper, were presented with a newspaper report that described either a stereotype-congruent (rape by ...

Evidence based on almost 300,000 sexual assaults from the National Incident-Based Reporting System showed that the modal age of victims was 15 years, regardless of the age of the offender, the gender of the offender, or the gender of the victim. We suggest that adolescents have the highest risk of victimization because of their sexual attractiveness, vulnerability, and exposure to motivated off...

Abstract In the treatment of juvenile ofenders in modern systems, priority is being given to procedures aimed at reconciliation and mediation, damage repair implementation alternative measures restrict freedom. The entirety such proceedings fall within concept restorative justice. Restorative justice particular importance juveniles by criminal system, as its main purpose not punish perpetrator ...

This prospective, descriptive, correlational study examined perceived risk, severity of abuse, expectations, and needs of women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) with arrest of the offender occurring at the time of incident. This study builds on previous research completed on fear and expectations of female victims/survivors of IPV that come to the attention of police, to expand know...

Although research consistently indicates that adolescents’ peers are an important determinant of their involvement in crime as offenders, there has been little attention to whether adolescents’ peers influence adolescent victimization. This omission is problematic both because some adolescents alternate between offending and victimization and because many of the same factors that predict offend...