Investigating the Criminality Patterns of Victimization: Profiling Typologies of Offenders that Burn Children

• In Event: Understanding Drug and Violent Offenders

Abstract

The following research study explored the patterns correlating to the types of perpetrators that participate in the crime of burning children. The data set investigated, consisted of 100 cases that were collected throughout the United States within 37 different states over the past 23 years. The objective for study was for the researchers to assess the data from a qualitative lens to ascertain perpetration patterns and plausible typologies that subsist amongst this offender population. The research design utilized to evaluate the cases included a data content analysis for identifying perpetration patterns and victimization patterns of criminality. The data collected provided an innovative exploration of profiling and behavior analysis patterns to employ for the establishment of baseline offender typologies and classifications of injurious behaviors alike.

Authors

• Haley Agard, Indiana Tech

• Erica Hutton, Tusculum College

• Kyrie Hernandezpeterson, Indiana Tech

• Ashley Haines, Hutton Criminal Profiling & Associates

• Hannah Wiechec, Hutton Criminal Profiling & Associates

• Kaitlyn Hampshire, Hutton Criminal Profiling & Associates