| Abstrakt: |
This essay discusses the capacity of the serial offender to alter measurements, descriptions, and generalizations about crime. Using police case file data, lone offender—one assailant rapes are classified according to the number of assaults committed by the same person before he is apprehended by the police. The classifications are examined within numerical, geographical, and ecological frameworks. The way in which serial offenders greatly influence data instability is shown. Specifically, the highest rape areas are mainly the result of serial offenders. However, there is clear indication that geographic locations and the ecological distribution of series offenses can vary radically from one year to the next. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
