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OFFENDER PROFILING: A STUDY OF VIOLENT OFFENDERS IN SWEDEN
Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society (HS).
2018 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

Criminal profiling methods have been shown to be useful in predicting offender characteristics based on crime-scene and victim characteristics. However, a limited amount of studies within this field have been conducted in a Swedish cohort. In this study, data on 12 offenders with a conviction for murder, manslaughter or attempted murder or manslaughter from a metropolitan city in Sweden were analyzed. Court documents were used to gather information on offenders, crime-scene, victim, and offender-victim relationships. A two-step cluster analysis was used to determine if common characteristics were amongst them in order to form profiles. The outcome was two profiles; the more prominent one characterized by a young male, single, unemployed, with a history of substance abuse and violent criminality, using a knife against friends or acquaintances. That profile was also comparable to a profile from a previous study done within the same cohort. The collective aim of these studies is to build a longitudinal database on violent offenders in this city, which hopefully could aid the Swedish Police to possibly identify suspects in future violent crimes.

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Malmö universitet/Hälsa och samhälle , 2018. , p. 23
Keywords [en]
Cluster analysis, Murder, Manslaughter, Offender profiling, Violent offenders
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24888Local ID: 25994OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-24888DiVA, id: diva2:1486310
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HS Criminology
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Available from: 2020-11-02 Created: 2020-11-02Bibliographically approved

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