Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling最新文献

This study analysed records of sexual offences committed by minor offenders through an examination of the criminological databases of the Spanish Civil Guard between 2015 and 2019. The characteristics of these offences, as well as the profiles of the offenders and their victims, were examined. The results revealed that 19% of these offences were committed by groups of minors. Both group offenders and those who acted alone were predominantly male, with an average age of approximately 15 years, and committed the offences under similar spatial and temporal conditions. Statistically significant differences emerged between the two groups in terms of the types of offences, the involvement of female accomplices, the criminal histories of the offenders, and the age distribution of the victims. This study sheds light on nuanced distinctions within the realm of juvenile sexual offences and underscores the importance of intervention and prevention strategies tailored to the specific characteristics of these offences.

This paper examines the relationship between Alexithymia and a variety of environmental, genetic, and biological influences. A narrative questionnaire incorporating 98 variables believed to be associated with Alexithymia was employed to gain responses from 82 participants in a non-clinical sample and 80 participants in a clinical sample. A smallest space analysis was used to analyze the responses and identify any narratives associated with Alexithymia. The results revealed five narratives, The Compromised Child, The Compromised Adult, The Warrior, The Nurtured Child and The Alexithymic. The findings provide useful insights into who is most at risk of Alexithymia, what environmental factors may exacerbate it, and how to create more effective treatment pathways.

Chemical submission associated with crimes of a sexual nature has experienced a surge in recent times. In addition to studying, it from a clinical and toxicological standpoint, this is a phenomenon that should also be addressed from a criminological and police investigation perspective. This paper, therefore, describes the main characteristics associated with these acts, along with the differences observed between the characteristics of perpetrators who act alone compared to those who act in collaboration with other people. The sample consisted of 121 cases analyzed correspond to solved sexual crimes featuring the use of substances as the means employed to commit the crime and that were investigated by the Civil Guard units between the years of 2008 and 2017. The results show differences in the profiles of the perpetrators depending on whether they acted alone or accompanied. Those aggressors who act in a group are younger, do not usually have a history of Gender-based Violence, and it is more common for them to have consumed alcohol or other drugs at the time of the events. On the other hand, the most explicit sexual behaviors being more common in the cases of perpetrators acting alone. This has important implications when it comes to conducting police investigations, as well as for the preventive aspects that can be rolled out once the contexts and people implicated in these types of events have been analyzed. From the behaviors observed, not only can distinguishing characteristics be inferred, but also motives that are not directly associated with sexual satisfaction on the part of the perpetrators.

In recent years, Malawi has witnessed an increase in fraud text messages among mobile phone users which are sent by people with malicious intentions of stealing money from the recipients of these short message services (SMSs). However, no study so far has attempted to study what convinces the SMSs recipients to trust the fraud messages. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine linguistic strategies fraudsters use when crafting text messages in Malawi using a corpus of 26 samples of fraud messages. The study's findings show that fraudsters disguise themselves in different ways. Using Kondowe's Principle of Believability, as the theoretical framework, the paper provides various strategies that fraudsters use to make themselves believable and trusted by the recipients. These findings have huge practical and theoretical implications in the field of Criminology when investigating and profiling offenders in Africa and beyond.

The killing of cousins and siblings-in-law has been examined as part of ‘relative killings’ in prior research. However, they have not been disaggregated and examined in their own right. A content analysis of a major Korean newspaper (Chosun Ilbo) and sentencing verdicts from regional trial courts of original jurisdiction in Korea was conducted. This paper examines the offence characteristics in cousin and siblings-in-law killings. Cousin and siblings-in-law killings made up 4% of 682 family homicides. The victims and offenders were primarily men who used edged weapons to kill one another during the course of arguments. Women appeared as offenders and victims in the early period (1948–1962) while they appeared primarily as victims in the latter period (2013–2023). The data suggest a shift in the age structure of victims and putative motivations across time. The average age of victims and offenders increased by 20 years; the character of violence also shifted from confrontational homicides to killings in the context of domestic disputes between relatives' spouses.