| Chapter 1: | Profiling Erotophonophilia |
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their pregnancy, further indicating their youth, poverty, lack of sufficient familial or social support, and/or immaturity (Chang et al., 2005) that put them at higher risk. Additionally, in 2002, the FBI stated that “approximately one third (32.1%) of female homicide victims in this country died at the hands of a husband, ex-husband, or boyfriend” (Chang et al., 2005, p. 11). However, what was unstated in that report was that, conversely, over two-thirds (66%) die at the hands of strangers.
Therefore, the goals of the book may take on a greater significance regarding the percentage of unsolved homicides that occur annually in the United States. Moreover, the extent of violent sexualized homicides first noted by Egger (1990) and further supported by the research highlights that a number of unapprehended lust murderers significantly targets females and children.
The Current Literature: An Overview
Since the 1980s, the investigation by law enforcement of violent criminal- homicide offences committed by unknown assailants has included efforts to incorporate the quantification and qualification of the character and behavioral propensities of those assailants along with the more traditional investigative practices. The application of offender characteristics and behavioral inclinations incorporates the practical understanding and research of a broad array of disciplines and subdisciplines of criminal justice including those in criminology, criminalistics, psychology, forensics, criminal-investigation practices, geographic analysis, and sociology.
The research in violent criminal-homicide offences committed by unknown subjects has typically included efforts to incorporate the character and behavioral propensities of those persons. Those techniques used in conjunction with the more traditional investigative practices attempt to develop suspect profiles characteristically identified through such techniques as gathering victim information, victim associations, crime scene analysis, and known-offender modus operandi. However, the typology characteristically used by investigators relies on additional