An Examination of behavioral consistency using individual behaviors or groups of behaviors in serial homicide
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 527 - 544. Special Issue: Current Directions
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Alicia L. Bateman, C. Gabrielle Salfati
"Establishing behavioural consistency in serial homicide offending behaviour is essential when linking homicides together and to a common offender. This study provides the first empirically based evidence testing the use of using single behaviours as linking factors in linking homicide cases in a series, and shows that this method has inherent difficulties in accomplishing this, thus providing the first wave of empirical testing that questions current theories in the literature on serial homicide, which has suggested that signatures or specific key behaviours are important in understanding the consistency in an offender's behaviour across the crimes."
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