%0 Journal Article
%T Male
%A Daniel Karlberg
%A Eva von Vogelsang
%A Joakim Sturup
%A Mikael Rying
%A Sara Rodre
%A Shilan Caman
%J International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
%@ 1552-6933
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0306624X18786609
%X To date, systematic studies of sexual homicides from Europe are scarce, in which none have been conducted in Sweden. This study aims to describe male-on-female sexual homicides in Sweden and differentiate from corresponding nonsexual homicides. Unsolved and solved sexual homicide (n = 33) cases were identified in a database containing all homicides in Sweden between 1990 and 2013 (N = 2,126), and subsequently data from forensic psychiatric evaluations were collected for convicted offenders. Male-on-female sexual homicides constituted 1.6% of all homicides and the clearance rate was 82%, which is comparable with the 83% overall clearance rate but took longer time to solve. Three factors differentiated sexual from nonsexual homicides: strangulation, younger age of the victim, and the absence of eyewitnesses. In solved cases, distance from the offender¡¯s home to the crime scene was strongly correlated with time to clearance. A majority of the offenders suffered from personality disorders, while other diagnoses were uncommon
%K sexual homicide
%K violence
%K rape
%K sexual offenders
%K homicide
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306624X18786609