Publications

Sexual assault / rape

Bennell, C., Jones, N.J., & Melnyk, T. (2009). Addressing problems with traditional crime linking methods using receiver operating characteristic analysis. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 14 (2), 293-310. DOI: 10.1348/135532508X349336 Find on ResearchGate

Canter, D.V., Bennell, C., Alison, L.J., & Reddy, S. (2003). Differentiating sex offences: a behaviourally based thematic classification of stranger rape. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 21 (2), 157-174. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.526 Find on ResearchGate

Davies, A. (1992). Rapists’ behaviour: a three aspect model as a basis for analysis and the identification of serial crime. Forensic Science International, 55 (2), 173-194. Find on ResearchGate

Deslauriers-Varin, N., & Beauregard, E. (2013). Investigating offending consistency of geographic and environmental factors among serial sex offenders: a comparison of multiple analytical strategies. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 40 (2), 156-179. Find on ResearchGate

Deslauriers-Varin, N. & Beauregard, E. (2014). Consistency in crime scene selection: an investigation of crime sites used by serial sex offenders across crime series. Journa of Criminal Justice, 42 (2), 123-133. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2013.09.005 Find on ResearchGate

Deslauriers-Varin, N. & Beauregard, E. (2014). Unravelling crime series patterns amongst serial sex offenders: duration, frequency, and environmental consistency. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 11 (3), 253-275. DOI: 10-1002/jip.1418 Find on ResearchGate

Fujita, G., Yokota, K., Watanabe, K., Suzuki, M., Wachi, T., Otsuka, Y., & Kuraishi, H. (2011). A qualitiative analysis of behavioral case linkage for practice. Japanese Journal of Forensic Science and Technology, 16(2), 91-104. DOI: 10.3408/jafst.16.91 Find on ResearchGate

Grubin, D., Kelly, P., & Brunsdon, C. (2001). Linking serious sexual assaults through behaviour. Home Office Research Study 215. London: Home Office. Available online

Harbers, E., Deslauriers-Varin, N., Beauregard, E., & van der Kemp, J.J. (2012). Testing the behavioural and environmental consistency of serial sex offenders: a signature approach. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 9 (3), 259-273. DOI: 10.1002/jip.1368 Find on ResearchGate

Hazelwood, R.R., & Warren, J.I. (2003). Linkage analysis: modus operandi, ritual, and signature in serial sexual crime. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 8 (6), 587-598. DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2004.02.002 Find on ResearchGate

Hewitt, A. & Beauregard, E. (2014). Offending patterns of serial sex offenders: escalation, de-escalation, and consistency of sexually intrusive and violent behaviours. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 11 (1), 57-80. DOI: 10.1002/jip.1407 Find on ResearchGate

Oziel, S., Goodwill, A., & Beauregard, E. (2014). Variability in behavioural consistency across temporal phases in stranger sexual offences. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s11896-014-9150-5 Find on ResearchGate

Porter, L.E., & Alison, L.J. (2004). Behavioural coherence in violent group activity: an interpersonal model of sexually violent gang behaviour. Aggressive Behavior, 30 (6), 449-468. DOI: 10.1002/ab.20047 Find on ResearchGate

Santtila, P., Junkkila, J., & Sandnabba, N. K. (2005). Behavioural linking of stranger rapes. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 2 (2), 87-103. DOI: 10.1002/jip.26 Find on ResearchGate

Scott, D., Lambie, I., Henwood, D., & Lamb, R. (2006). Profiling stranger rapists: linking offence behaviour to previous criminal histories using a regression model. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 12 (3), 265-275. DOI: 10.1080/13552600601090329 Find on ResearchGate

Slater, C., Woodhams, J., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2014). Can serial rapists be distinguished from one-off rapists? Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 32 (2), 220-239. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2096 Find on ResearchGate

Slater, C., Woodhams, J., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (in press). Testing the assumptions of crime linnkage with stranger sex offenses: a more ecologically-valid study. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s11896-014-9160-3 Find on ResearchGate

van der Watt, M., van Graan, J., & Labuschagne,G. (2014). Modus operandi, signature and fantasy as distinctive behaviour: fundamental considerations in the case linkage of child rape cases. Child Abuse Research: A South African Journal, 15 (1), 61-72. Find on ResearchGate

Winter, J. , Lemeire, J., Meganck, S., Geboers, J., Rossi, G., & Mokros, A. (2013). Comparing the predictive accuracy of case linkage methods in serious sexual assaults. Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling, 10 (1), 28-56. DOI: 10.1002/jip.1372 Find on ResearchGate

Woodhams, J., Grant, T.D., & Price, A.R.G. (2007). From marine ecology to crime analysis: improving the detection of serial sexual offences using a taxonomic similarity measure. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 4 (1), 17-27. DOI: 10.1002/jip.55 Find on ResearchGate

Woodhams, J., Hollin, C., & Bull, R. (2008). Incorporating context in linking crimes: an exploratory study of situational similarity and If-Then contingencies. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 5 (1-2), 1-23. DOI: 10.1002/jip.75 Find on ResearchGate

Woodhams, J., & Labuschagne, G.N. (2012). Serial rapists: the offenders, their victims and their offences. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 24 (6), 544-574. DOI: 10.1177/1079063212438921 Find on ResearchGate

Woodhams, J., & Labuschagne, G.N. (2012). A test of case linkage principles with solved and unsolved serial rapes. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 27 (1), 85-98. DOI: 10.1002/s11896-011-9091-1 Find on ResearchGate

Yokota, K., Watanabe, K., Waachi, T., Otsuka, Y., Kurashi, H., & Fujita, G. (2015). Linkage analysis of serial sex crimes. The Japanese Journal of Psychology, 86(3), 209-218. DOI: 10.4992/jjpsy.86.13086 Find on ResearchGate

 

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