Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
Sex Abuse. 2022 Apr;34(3):292-318. doi: 10.1177/10790632211024236. Epub 2021 Jun 18.
Although there has been considerable variation in the application of expertise to offending populations, one aspect that is widely agreed upon is that expertise is best represented on a continuum from novice to expert. The present study, therefore, investigated criminal expertise in 877 hybrid offenses that involve sexual assault and robbery (i.e., sexual robbery) or burglary (i.e., sexual burglary). Specifically, we analyzed the crime-commission processes of both these offenses using latent class analyses to determine the heterogeneity of criminal expertise among each domain. Results showed an expert to novice continuum in both domains, including a "domain-specific" expert sexual burglary subgroup who was characterized by a high degree of offense-related competencies relevant to sexual burglary. We also found an expert subgroup in sexual robbery who had more general skills (i.e., overlapping expertise) relevant to violent offending. Implications for offender decision-making, treatment, and practice are discussed.
虽然在将专业知识应用于犯罪人群方面存在相当大的差异,但人们普遍认为,专业知识最好从新手到专家呈连续变化。因此,本研究调查了涉及性侵犯和抢劫(即性抢劫)或盗窃(即性盗窃)的 877 起混合犯罪中的犯罪专业知识。具体来说,我们使用潜在类别分析来分析这两种犯罪的犯罪实施过程,以确定每个领域犯罪专业知识的异质性。结果表明,两个领域都存在从新手到专家的连续体,包括一个“特定领域”的性盗窃专业专家亚组,其特点是与性盗窃相关的犯罪能力很高。我们还发现性抢劫中有一个专家亚组,他们具有更一般的技能(即重叠的专业知识),与暴力犯罪有关。讨论了对罪犯决策、治疗和实践的影响。