A Coach Sexually Assaulted Me: Investigating Offense Patterns With a Profiler

• In Event: The prevalence and cause of sexual violence and victimization

Abstract

The following research study explored the patterns correlated to coaches that sexually assault students. The data set investigated, consisted of 100 cases that were collected throughout the United States within 48 different states over the past 37 years. The objective for study to assess the data from a qualitative lens to ascertain perpetration patterns and plausible schematic associations 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 study consisted of 684 victims and 100 perpetrators respectively. The data collected provided an innovative exploration of profiling and behavior analysis patterns to employ for the establishment of baseline offender typologies for the types of schematic associations that subsist in cases in which coaches were convicted of sexually assaulting a student.

Authors

• Erica Hutton, Hutton Forensics

• Kaitlyn Hampshire, Hutton Forensics

• Melissa Mazur, Hutton Forensics