Patterns of Sexual Offending

Authors

Rachel Lovell, Case Western Reserve University
Fred Butcher, Case Western Reserve University
Daniel Flannery, Case Western Reserve UniversityFollow
Laura Overman, Case Western Reserve UniversityFollow
Tiffany Walker, Case Western Reserve University

Files

Date

9-2016

Description

This report describes patterns of sexual offending. The exploratory examination of the typology of offending helps describe different types of sexual assaults by providing context behind how these different types of sexual assaults occur and who the offenders may be. Guided by the scientific literature on sexual assaults and violence against women, we examined data on our sample of 243 Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs) to discern a pattern for four types of sexual assaults: sexual assaults that involve kidnapping, sexual assaults committed by strangers, sexual assaults committed by multiple offenders, and sexual assaults that involve captivity.

Keywords

sexual violence, sexual assault kits, Cuyahoga County (Ohio)

Disciplines

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Recommended Citation

Lovell, Rachel; Butcher, Fred; Flannery, Daniel; Overman, Laura; and Walker, Tiffany, "Patterns of Sexual Offending" (2016). Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Reports and Briefs. 13.
https://commons.case.edu/beguncenter-reports/13