Are there any links available to Safarik's research? Would like to read them.
Thanks.
http://www.csaia.org/docs/ Elderly Sexual Homicide.pdf
of Elderly Females
Linking Offender Characteristics
to Victim and Crime Scene Attributes
MARK E. SAFARIK
JOHN P. JARVIS
Federal Bureau of Investigation
KATHLEEN E. NUSSBAUM
University of Liverpool
Case 1
A 77-year-old widow was sexually assaulted and murdered in her bedroom.
The medical examiner identified three separate causes of death. The
offender strangled the victim into unconsciousness .....Warning Graphic!
Rape and sexual assault are in fact distortions of human sexuality
(Groth, 1978). When the victim is an elderly female, these distortions cause
us to question the more traditional avenues of investigating these types of
homicides. This perception can pose serious difficulties as law enforcement
attempts to establish initial investigative directions for solving these cases.
Because of the relative infrequency of these cases and the lack of research
in this area, investigators often encounter difficulties when trying to investigate
a sexual homicide involving an elderly female victim.1 Complicating
this is a lack of knowledge with respect to offenders who perpetrate these heinous
crimes. Empirical research, perhaps leading to investigative decision
support systems, is needed to assist law enforcement in rapidly identifying
and apprehending these offenders. Specifically, analysis and study of readily
obtainable crime scene, victim, and demographic variables may be useful in
supporting such goals. The research offered here examines cases of elderly
female sexual homicide to identify patterns in the behavioral aspects of the
victims, offenders, their interactions within the context of the crime and to
link offender characteristics to victim and crime scene attributes"