The Organized/Disorganized Typology of Serial Murder: Myth or Model?

By David Canter, Laurence Alison, Emily K. Alison, N. Wentink. 2004

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Clinical Psychology

1. P. Taylor
2. David Canter
3. K. Quinet

In Sociology and Political Science

1. P. Taylor
2. C. Gabrielle Salfati
3. David Canter
4. K. Quinet

Citations in the corpus

• Offender profiling and investigative psychology (2004, background): “Canter, Alison, Alison & Wentink (2004) reveal the weaknesses the organised/disorganised dichotomy and Canter & Wentink (2004) show that Holmes and Holmes’ five-fold classification scheme is only marginally more successful.”
• Differentiating sexual violence: A comparison of sexual homicide and rape (2006, background): “J, Alison, E, & Wentink 2004 ; Salfati & Canter 1999 ) have since suggested that there are inherent methodological problems with these studies which decrease their validity, and as such caution needs to betaken in using this model in any research on classification.”
• Behavioural crime linking in serial homicide (2008, unknown): “However, Canter, Alison, Alison, and Wentink ( 2004 ) found no distinct subsets of characteristics reflecting such a dichotomy in offending.”