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Mapping matters: geoprofiling application in South African serial rape investigation
- Source :
- Crime, Law and Social Change. 75:349-371
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Generally, the application of geographic profiling (also known as geoprofiling) is under-researched and its scientific and theoretical foundations, as well as the existing research evidence of its effectiveness, claimed to be inadequate and questionable. Notwithstanding, the present study explored the role of geographic profiling, in the context of the South African serial rapist, by scrutinising, amongst others, the locations of their crime sites. The basic theoretical assumptions underlying geographic profiling, their empirical validity, methods of constructing geographic profiles, and geographic profiling’s accuracy were also probed. Findings presented pioneering criminological insights on how serial rapists navigated to and from their crime sites, which could potentially assist national and international crime investigators with the prediction of subsequent offence locales.
- Subjects :
- 021110 strategic, defence & security studies
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies
General Social Sciences
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Criminology
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Rape investigation
Empirical validity
050501 criminology
Geographic profiling
Law
0505 law
Research evidence
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730751 and 09254994
- Volume :
- 75
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Crime, Law and Social Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a2e65704bebdc050686cff6ec5e17b47