Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 34
Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 6 D 34
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STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES
SECOND
EDITION
Defining Characteristics
Victimology. The
victimology of authority murder involves primary and secondary targets. The
primary targets are the principal people whom the of- fender perceives as wronging
him. The wrong may be actual, such as the offender’s being fired, or may be imagined,
based on a psychotic or paranoid delusion of a conspiracy. The secondary
victims become random targets as a result of being in the wrong place at the
wrong time because the offender generalizes their immediate presence to
symbolize the authority.
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