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Murder by Manual and Ligature Strangulation

Profiling Crime Scene Behaviors and Offender Characteristics

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Criminal Profiling

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This chapter is based on a number of research projects on offender profiling and homicidal crime scene behavior carried out at the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation. This specific study investigated homicidalstrangulation in Finland during a 7-year period and analyzed and compared offense and offender characteristics in manual and ligature strangulation cases. The results diverge in many respects from the previous research findings attributed to homicidal strangulation and emphasize the need to identify possible culture-specific patterns and psychopathological offender characteristics in homicidal behavior.

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Häkkänen, H. (2007). Murder by Manual and Ligature Strangulation. In: Kocsis, R.N. (eds) Criminal Profiling. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-146-2_4

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