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RessLer. Burgess. And DOLgLAS TA8LE 1. Escalation of the Criminal Sehavior ot an Adolescent Boy PrOfiLe Of the victiMIS Bov s Vicam's All of the 12 victms were temale. and chey repre- Age Age sented' ditterent ethnic groups. They ranged in age Otfense vears: yearsi from 17 to 34 years and were older than the oifender 12 Perry larcency Probation by 1 to 15 years. Several victims were caller and 12 Disrugang schoo! Probanon 13 ur anoupim Suiaug (our. panuduo? asr) heavier than the oiender. Nine ot them were coca! operator's license his 13ch birthdav strangers to him; he knew 3 by sight. Two of che 9 14 Sors pur argaung 15 Sent to stace psv- women who were strangers to him recognized him chianc cencer after his caprure. Vlost ot the vicrims were ot middle- t1 Pecty larceny Senr co state osv- income starus, and the majoriry lived in the apartment chatnc cencer 14 Breaking and Sent co stace psv. complex where the otfender lived with his mocher. All entering chiatnc cencer of the victims excepr 1 high school student were 16 Rape Never charged employed full-time and worked in such positions as !6 Rape Never charged teachers, postai supervisors, store buyers, airline 16 Burglary and rage Never charged stewardesses, and administrative assistants. Some of codeiendant) Rage codeiendant! Never sharged them also had part-rime iobs and/or were continuing 17 Attempced armed pur voucoo:j their college education. Mlost of the vicrims were not robbery Outpanent theraov married; several were divorced. Two were known to 18 Rape 13 % t. Never charged 18 Rape and murder Liie imprsonmene have children. Five of the women were raped and 19 Rape and murder Liie imprisonment murdered; 5 were raped only by the offender; and 2 19 Rape and murder tE Life impnsonment were gang raped. One escaped from the offender 19 Rape Never charged before he could commit a sex crime. Most of the 61 Rape and murder Liie imprisonment victims were approached at knife point as they entered 19 Rage and murder Lie morisonment the elevator in cheir apartment building. All rape- murder victims were abducred from the same location, killed in different areas, and found fully clothed. The homicides- were not linked to one ottender and did not time spent in locaring their bodies ranged from I day appear to include rape until he was apprehended and t0 6 weeks. described the otfenses. Rape and Intended Rupe: The First - Oifenses Data collection Data were collected in two ways: through interviews The hrst rape with which the ofender was charged. with the offender and completion of an interview guide when he was 1+, occurred in the apartmenr next to and chrough the use of police reports, court evaluation where he lived with his mother. He had rerurned home records, photographs of crime scene investigarions, from a party and had gone to bed but woke up and medical examiners' reports. An obvious limitation tantasizing about the 25-year-old divorced neighbor to the interviews was having to rely on the oifender's woman who often employed him tor smail errands. He memory and reconstruction of the crimes. This bias gor up. went outside wearing a ski mask. scaled the was countered with documenration from. prison and apartment wall like "cat burglar. and entered che woman's chird-tloor apartment through the balcony court records. On the other hand, the ofender's admis- door. He raped the woman severai times. left through sion of 6 additional rapes adds to the dara not the front door, rerurned to his own apartment. and available through official channels. Another method- ological drawback was that the intormation on what went to sleep. He was apprehended 3 weeks larer and victms said and did came from the oifender. was evenrually convicted on the basis ot evidence tound in the apartment i.e.. lingerprints and clothing: rather than the victm's identincation ot him. A wom- FINDINGS an judge sentenced him to an out-ot-state psvchiacric residential facilicy. The analysis of the data suggests that the otfender's The second rape .the hirst one with which he was criminal behavior changed in rwo major ways: The never charged) occurred when he was 16 and home sexual aggression escalared from rape co rape and Trom the residential tacilicy tor Christmas vacanion. murder, and the otfenses increased in frequency over The evening betore he rerurned :o the facilirv. he time (see table 1). Ot special note are the facts thar 1) approached woman in the elevator :n the apartment all rape and murder otfenses except the irsr were complex and it knite point rook her to anorher committed while he was under psychiaric supervision location and raped her. The second rape with which he and on probation, 2) che 6 rapes thar were not charged was never charged third in the sequence: occurred 3 months iater when he approached a woman in the to him were also committed while he was under parking lot ot local school he attended while at the psychiatric supervision and on probarion, and 3: che 5 Am J Psychiatry 1+0:1. January 1933 138