ISSN : 2093-3843
The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of the offender and the victim, location of trauma, and the methods of crime depending on the type of the weapon used for the homicide. Among various types of weapon used in homicide, the present study compared homicides by sharp force, which is the most frequently used homicide weapon in South Korea, with homicides by ligature/manual strangulation. Based on a total of 302 homicide cases occurred from 1998 to 2008, we compared homicides by sharp force with homicides by ligature/manual strangulation by using Chi-square analyses and T-test, and additionally logistic regression was used to analyze the factors affecting weapon type. As a result, the offender who used sharp force had a bigger number of criminal records than offenders who committed homicide by ligature/manual strangulation, especially the criminal record of violence. Compared to victims of homicide by sharp force, victims of ligature/manual strangulation were significantly younger, and were more likely to be female and single. Most of the victims by sharp force sustained injury on the chest, whereas victims by ligature/manual strangulation were more likely to sustain injury on the head and face. In terms of methods of crime, offenders of homicides by ligature/manual strangulation were more likely to bind, gag, and rape the victim, steal from the victim, and stage the scene after the offense than those of homicides by sharp force. Finally, the limitations of the current study were discussed and the suggestions for future studies were made.
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