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Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology

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A Study to Classify Arson Based on Crime Scenes Action

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2009, v.23 no.4, pp.131-146
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2009.23.4.008


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Abstract

Recent studies for the criminal profiling have focused on the relation between offenders' behaviors at a crime scene and offender characteristics. For Korean offenders, a study has been performed to search for the model to differentiate the homicide and rape offenders based on criminal acts at the crime scenes, but there were no research attempts to profile the characteristics of Korean arsons. The purpose of this study is finding the framework to understand Korean arsons based on the characteristics of crime scenes and criminal acts. To achieve this goal, actions at the crime scenes drawn from police data were analysed using MDS(N=127). The result did not support the model of the thematic classification proposed by earlier western research but revealed the existence of five themes among Korean arsons. Among these, two themes was dominant; expressive/instrumental actions. Finally, comparison between this model and earlier one was made.

keywords
criminal profiling, arsonist, typology, crime scene, MDS, 범죄자 프로파일링, 방화범죄자, 다차원분석, 방화범죄자 유형

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