The impact of victim and offender preassault substance use on the outcomes of sexual assault incidents was analyzed. Nine hundred and seventy female sexual assault victims were identified from the first wave of a longitudinal study based on a convenience sampling strategy. Multivariate models showed that victim injury was more likely in assaults involving offender substance use (regardless of w...

Purpose It is well-established that victims and offenders are often the same people, a phenomenon known as the victim-offender overlap, but the developmental nature of this overlap remains uncertain. In this study, we drew from a developmental theoretical framework to test effects of genetics, individual characteristics, and routine-activity-based risks. Drawing from developmental literature, w...

OBJECTIVE The roles of victim and offender alcohol use in the outcomes of sexual assault incidents (rape completion, injury and medical care) were studied. METHOD Data from 859 female sexual assault victims identified from the National Violence against Women Survey were examined. RESULTS Logistic regression analyses demonstrated that offender drinking was associated with greater likelihood ...

ERIN A. MARSH Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence (Under the direction of DR. LISA MUFTIC) Victim offender overlap is a relatively new area of research with most studies having focused on applying this concept to the study of assault and homicide. Research in intimate partner violence has found that there exists a group of victim offenders or individuals who are involved in ini...

The victim ages ranged from 10 to 43 years. On each occasion the victim was attacked at night in her own home. The offender was often disguised and also often armed himself with a knife, which he obtained from within the dwelling house and which he used to threaten the victim. The sexual attacks often involved severe physical as well as sexual violence. The offender was not deterred by the pres...

This monograph reports on the development and use of the Victim Satisfaction with Offender Dialogue Scale (VSODS). We will: (1) present a rationale for the use of a standardized scale and discuss problems in the use of satisfaction data; (2) describe the psychometric development of the VSODS scale; (3) provide guidelines for the use of the VSODS scale; and, (4) present victim satisfaction resul...

This study investigated gender differences regarding young people charged with murder in England and Wales. A sample of 318 cases was collected from the Home Office's Homicide Index and analysed. Of these cases, 93% of the offenders were male and 7% female. The analyses explored gender differences in terms of the offender's race, offender's age, victim's age, victim's gender, weapon used, offen...

s the meaning and significance of a victim-offender mediation (VOM) prog . The authors conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with seven youth had recently participated in a VOM conference with the victims. Analys lying motivations for the offenders’ participation in the program, their em otential impact on the offenders for long-standing behavior change. Based o plications for future practi...