PROFIL ZLOSTAVLJAČA
PROFILE OF AN ABUSER

Summary/Abstract: As a discipline of both psychology and criminology, criminal profiling takes as one of its main goals to define the forms of crime. An analysis of the perpetrator's personality or profiling is a relatively new method. For every type of crime (particularly violent behaviour and murder,) where we use the determination of the perpetrator's personality, the starting point is the crime scene and all of its characteristics, as well as victimology analysis if available. Therefore, the more information we know about the crime scene, method of operation and the characteristics of the victim, profile of the perpetrator - abuser will be more complete and the motives clearer. The risk factors and characteristics of potential abuser, from childhood and/or child abuse to violent behaviour in adulthood, were identified. Furthermore, victims of the crime and the importance of their interaction with the perpetrator were also analyzed. The killing of the women by men who then take their own life is the most common form of murder - suicide. In addition to the paper, an analysis was done on a sample od 35 such cases which occurred in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to the lack of the official and publicly available statistics on these cases, we relied on media reports. The main aim of this analysis was to identify the relevant variables that can be followed in specific cases of familicide. Findings about the partner's previous abuse of the victim were available in 19 cases. The results show uniqueness and consistency compared to overall rates from previous research. Increase in the literature on the subject, despite its methodological deficiencies, confirms that such cases occur in an already recognizable form and can be predicted.

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