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Profiling homicide cases based on matched victim‐offender demographic characteristics
Author(s) -
Avdija Avdi S.,
Gallagher Christian W.,
Woods DeVere D.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1544-4767
pISSN - 1544-4759
DOI - 10.1002/jip.1570
Subject(s) - homicide , offender profiling , psychology , criminology , law enforcement , suicide prevention , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , political science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , visualization
The purpose of this study is to develop an evidence‐based set of inductive profiles based on matched victim‐offender characteristics of homicide cases. To develop these homicide profiles, we used national data from the FBI's supplementary homicide reports that were reported by law enforcement agencies for a period of 42 years, from 1976 to 2017 in the United States. The findings that emerged from the study show that female offenders tend to kill victims of the opposite gender; whereas male offenders kill more victims within their own gender. The probability of becoming a victim of homicide increases for white people and decreases for black people as the offender's age increases. Overall, offenders tend to kill victims about their own age, and as offenders get older, they are more likely to kill female victims than male victims.