Victims’ Routine Activities and Sex Offenders’ Target Selection Scripts: A Latent Class Analysis

rape against brazilian women: characteristics of victims and sex offenders

background: violence against women is a serious social problem and affects mainly young women. this study aimed to evaluate sexual violence against women in campina grande, brazil. methods: a retrospective study with analysis of 886 forensic medical reports of sexual violence from the institute of legal medicine of campina grande, brazil, was conducted between january 2005 and december 2009. so...

Latent Class Analysis Variable Selection.

We propose a method for selecting variables in latent class analysis, which is the most common model-based clustering method for discrete data. The method assesses a variable's usefulness for clustering by comparing two models, given the clustering variables already selected. In one model the variable contributes information about cluster allocation beyond that contained in the already selected...

Rape against Brazilian Women: Characteristics of Victims and Sex Offenders.

BACKGROUND Violence against women is a serious social problem and affects mainly young women. This study aimed to evaluate sexual violence against women in Campina Grande, Brazil. METHODS A retrospective study with analysis of 886 forensic medical reports of sexual violence from the Institute of Legal Medicine of Campina Grande, Brazil, was conducted between January 2005 and December 2009. So...

Juvenile Victims and Offenders

PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF SEX OFFENDERS A Comparison of Males and Females Using Latent Profile Analysis