Behavioural Profiles and Offender Characteristics across 111 Korean Sexual Assaults

摘要: Although the potential usefulness of offence action–offender characteristic (A–C) relationships is widely accepted and operational ‘offender profiling’ units now exist around world, few such have been empirically established. To explore this, offending action patterns within 111 sexual assault cases from South Korea were coded in terms 16 distinctive, objective crime scene criteria subjected to an agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis. Background psychiatric general characteristics, Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) scale scores, criminal histories described for each cluster. The analysis drew attention six clusters or behavioural profiles assaults. Cluster 1 included serial offenders who aggressively raped robbed adult women, with some pseudo-intimate behaviour, their homes. Two thirds these had assault. 2 again targeted adults homes, but without behaviour. 3 outdoors at night. These showed high antisocial personality PAI scores sadism. 4 unarmed homes robbery. often depression. 5 a blitz-style attack, 6 minors outdoors, weapons, using confidence-trick style approach. Paedophilia treatment prominent amongst offenders. results indicate therefore key empirical that future research may develop as basis ‘profiles’. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.