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- Title
Typical and Atypical Homicide: Investigative Differences and Cold Case Profiling.
- Authors
Moffatt, Gregory K.; Hersey, Nicholas W.
- Abstract
This article addresses the difference between typical homicides and atypical homicides. Homicide investigators, even those in large agencies that handle dozens of homicides each year, spend the majority of their careers investigating typical homicides. These include homicides where the perpetrator has a relationship with the victim; the victim is engaged in drug activity; or the victim is a target, bystander, or participant in another illegal activity. Atypical homicides are those that do not fall into one of these areas; they include serial crimes. This article addresses how the recognition of these two types of homicide, as well as how investigative differences between the two, can assist the cold case profiler and what profilers need for a cold case profiling.
- Subjects
HOMICIDE; HOMICIDE investigation; GOVERNMENT investigators; FRATRICIDE; DRUGS &; crime; PREDICTION of criminal behavior; CRIMINAL investigation; SERIAL murder investigation; COLD cases (Criminal investigation)
- Publication
Forensic Examiner, 2010, Vol 19, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
1084-5569
- Publication type
Article