Offender and victim ‘journey-to-crime’: Motivational differences among stranger rapists

Ashley N. Hewitt, Julien Chopin and Eric Beauregard

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020, vol. 69, issue C

Abstract: To examine the variability in the ‘journey-to-crime’ and ‘journey-to-victimization’ in stranger rapes when disaggregated by offender motive. Using crime pattern theory as the theoretical framework, a series of pre-offense factors are used to explain these differences.

Keywords: Rape; Offender motivation; Journey-to-crime; Journey-to-victimization; Investigation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101707

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