Will history repeat itself? Growth mixture modeling of suspected serial sexual offending using forensic DNA evidence

Rebecca Campbell, Steven J. Pierce, Wenjuan Ma, Hannah Feeney, Rachael Goodman-Williams and Dhruv B. Sharma

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2019, vol. 61, issue C, 1-12

Abstract: Sexual offenders often commit more than one sexual assault, but there is variability in how many assaults they commit and in what pattern over time. Trajectory modeling studies typically use criminal history records as a data source to model perpetrators' sexual assault convictions, but this may underestimate the scope of offending because so few sexual assaults result in a conviction.

Keywords: Sexual assault; Rape; Sexual assault kit (SAK); Growth mixture models; Latent class analysis; Serial sexual offending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.01.004

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