HOW FAR IS FAR ENOUGH? THE JOURNEY TO CRIME OF SERIAL KILLERS IN BRAZILIAN CITIES

• Autor(a) principal: Lino, Denis
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Clarice Santoro, Valente, Mariana Coelho Marques, Lobato, Aline
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caminhos de Geografia
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/caminhosdegeografia/article/view/57506
• topic: Assassinos em série; Crime; Criminologia; Psicologia criminal; Psicologia jurídica; Serial killers; Crime; Criminology; Criminal psychology; Legal psychology

Journey to crime has been researched for nearly 90 years but there is still a significant literature gap when it comes to data on developing countries or serial killers. The present paper aims to address this gap by analyzing the journey to crime of Brazilian serial killers. A descriptive quantitative design was followed using secondary data collected from police records on three Brazilian cities between 1999 and 2017. The final sample consisted of 67 serial killers. It was found that Brazilian serial killers do not travel very far from home, they travel shorter distances than has been reported in other countries. Most of the serial killers followed a marauder model of movement and they were also spatially consistent, usually travelling either short or longer distances throughout their series. There were no significant differences between distances travelled in each of the cities despite variations in population density. Based on these findings new investigative tools to aid crime investigation in Brazil can be used. Further research is also needed to understand why Brazilian serial killers travel shorter distances than those of other countries, it should also be verified if this pattern extends to other types of offenses.