NCJ Number
195201
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Dated: March/April 2002 Pages: 135-141
Date Published
2002
Length
7 pages
Annotation
This article discusses the effects of age on victimization rates of women victims of multiple-offender attacks leading to murder.
Abstract
The author conducted a study to determine whether or not reproductive-age females were at a comparably higher risk of victimization by multiple-offender rape-murder than those reproductive-age females who were at risk for a single offender rape-murder relative to their older counterparts. The data for the study was compiled from the national homicide database. The author reviewed the data for attacks where a female victim was either raped and murdered by at least two males who were unknown to her prior to the attack and for attacks where the victim was murdered incident to a theft perpetrated by at least two males who were unknown to the female victim prior to the attack. The three major findings of the study were that young men were the most likely perpetrators of multiple-offender rape-murder attacks, reproductive-age females were the more likely victims of multiple-offender rape-murder attacks, and non-reproductive-age females were more likely to be victims of multiple-offender theft-murder. 4 figures, 13 references