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15 Homicide Stud. 3 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/homcst15 and id is 1 raw text is: Homicide Studies 15(1) 3-31 Linking Criminal History 21 AEPbiain @ 201II SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. to Crime Scene Behavior sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/1088767910397281 in Single-Victim and Serial http://hsx.sagepub.com Homicide: Implications for SAGE Offender Profiling Research Carrie Trojan' and C.Gabrielle Salfati2 Abstract Research has consistently shown that the average individual who commits one or more homicides is likely to have a criminal record, but little research has focused on whether individuals behave in a psychologically or thematically consistent way in both their homicide crime scene actions and prior offending. The current study examines the crime scene behaviors of single and serial homicide offenders to identify patterns that can be compared to themes in their prior offending. The results showed that crime scene actions occurred on a continuum from hostile to cognitive actions with serial offenders concentrating at the latter end of this continuum. However, only a small group of the serial homicide offenders committed similarly themed prior offenses and homicide behaviors, which raises questions regarding the hypotheses of behavioral consistency underlying offender profiling. Keywords Homicide, serial homicide, criminal history, crime scene behavior, smallest space analysis, multidimensional scaling analysis Introduction Offender profiling assumes a homology between the characteristics of an offender and the behaviors they engage in at the crime scene. These assumed relationships are set forth in what is sometimes referred to as the A to C equation in which A are the 'Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 2john Jay College of Criminal justice, New York, NY Corresponding Author: Carrie Trojan, Department of Sociology, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd. No. 11057, Bowling Green, KY42101-1057. Email: carrie.trojan@wku.edu

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