Can the offence behaviours of stranger rapists discriminate between UK and non-UK nationals

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, Ahead of Print. Purpose Currently, no research is available for behavioural investigative advisors ’ to provide justifications to infer from the crime scene that an offender is a UK or non-UK national. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Data were obtained from National Crime Agency and consisted of 651 stranger rapes, 434 UK nationals and 217 non-UK nationals. All cases were coded for 70 offence behaviour variables. χ2 analyses were conducted to identify significant associations between offence behaviours and offender nationality. Significant associations were then entered into a logistic regression analysis to assess their combined predictive ability o f offender nationality. Findings Analyses revealed 11 offence behaviours with significant associations to offender nationality: confidence, darkness, offender kisses victim, victim performs sex acts, requests sex acts, apologises, destroys forensics, block entry/exit, weapon – firearm, vaginal p enetration – hands/fist/digital, and violence: minimal. From this, seven variables held predictive ability within the logistic regression, with five predicting the non-UK grouping and two the UK grouping. Research limitations/implications Future research should test the distinctions between UK a nd non-UK national stranger rapists and explore the impact of length of residency. Practical implications Results indicated that on the whole UK an...
Source: Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research - Category: Criminology Source Type: research