Offenders and their Crime Scenes: Understanding Behavioral Distinctions and Patterns in Serious Violent Crime

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel will present studies aiming to empirically distinguish between subtypes of offenders, their behavioral patterns and their victims in serious violent crimes including homicides with single and multiple perpetrators, active shooter incidents, and serial sexual assaults. Each of these crime types presents its own challenges for both researchers and investigators in their attempts to identify the salient features of the crimes and link these reliably to the likely characteristics of the offenders. The focus of the panel will be on understanding and empirically analyzing the key characteristics and behavioral features of the various types of violent offenses for the purpose of informing and ultimately improving the investigative practice.

Sub Unit

• Area V: Types of Offending / 29: Violent Crime

Individual Presentations

• Single versus Multiple-Offender Homicide in the Dominican Republic: Preliminary Results of Crime Scene, Offender and Victim Characteristics - Fabiola M. Ceballos-Durham, The Graduate Center / John Jay College, CUNY

• Connecting Active Shooter Offender & Incident Characteristics: Do Different Types of Offenders Commit Different Types of Incidents? - Jeffery R. Osborne, John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY Graduate Center; C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• Time and Consistency: What Does the Crime Timeline Tell Us About Behavioral Consistency? - Kimberley Schanz, John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY Graduate Center; C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Chair

• Marina Sorochinski, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Discussant

• Marina Sorochinski, John Jay College of Criminal Justice