Expressiveness and Instrumentality of Crime Scene Behavior in Spanish Homicides
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Pecino Latorre, María del Mar; Pérez Fuentes, María Del Carmen; Patró Hernández, Rosa María; Santos Hermoso, JorgeDate
2019-11-15Abstract
One of the current trends in the study of criminal profiling consists of developing theoretical and methodological typologies to offer information of operational use in police investigations. The objective of this work was to verify the validity of the instrumental/expressive model, so as to establish homicide typologies based on modus operandi relationships, characteristics of the victims, and characteristics of perpetrators. The sample consisted of 448 homicide cases registered in the database of the Homicide Revision Project of the Office of Coordination and Studies of the Spanish Secretary of State and Security. Through multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis, three expressive homicide subtypes were identified (expressive-impulsive, expressive-distancing, and expressive-family), as well as two instrumental homicide subtypes (instrumental-opportunist and instrumental-gratification). The expressive homicide typologies accounted for almost 95% of all of the studied cases, and mo...
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homicide
instrumental homicide
expressive homicide
delinquent
criminal profiling
crime scene behavior