Victimology
Life Style Exposure The life style that the three victims, Byers, Branch and Moore had would have put them in minimal amounts of situations where they would be exposed to victimisation. As eight year old children they would have had School Monday to Friday, where they would have been overseen by a number of adults and be in the company of numerous children. This means that most days of the week and most hours of the day the victims would have had low risk of exposure to criminal behaviour. There is also little evidence to suggest domestic violence in the homes of the victims, as however, there is only Byer’s fathers transcript in the Case Materials (1993) there is no way to verify this with the other two families. As the victims …show more content…
The reason for this classification is because of evidence of sexual activity prior the death of the victims. The fine scratching that was discovered on Branch’s penis was said to have come from oral sex in the autopsy report (Case Materials, 1993). The bite marks on Moore’s tongue although possibly self-inflicted could have also come from aggressive kissing. The castration of Byers although more an act of aggression then sexuality may have links to the offender(s) sexual fantasies. …show more content…
To find this area at night and to some degree be concealed from their victims the offenders would have had intimate knowledge of the surrounding area and therefore would mostly likely have been local residents. However John Byers one of the victim’s fathers was a local resident and was searching for his son for most of the night and still did not find the crime scene. This then implies that the perpetrators had specialized knowledge of the area and that perhaps were hunters of some kind or part of an organization such as scouts that frequents bushy
Life Style Exposure The life style that the three victims, Byers, Branch and Moore had would have put them in minimal amounts of situations where they would be exposed to victimisation. As eight year old children they would have had School Monday to Friday, where they would have been overseen by a number of adults and be in the company of numerous children. This means that most days of the week and most hours of the day the victims would have had low risk of exposure to criminal behaviour. There is also little evidence to suggest domestic violence in the homes of the victims, as however, there is only Byer’s fathers transcript in the Case Materials (1993) there is no way to verify this with the other two families. As the victims …show more content…
The reason for this classification is because of evidence of sexual activity prior the death of the victims. The fine scratching that was discovered on Branch’s penis was said to have come from oral sex in the autopsy report (Case Materials, 1993). The bite marks on Moore’s tongue although possibly self-inflicted could have also come from aggressive kissing. The castration of Byers although more an act of aggression then sexuality may have links to the offender(s) sexual fantasies. …show more content…
To find this area at night and to some degree be concealed from their victims the offenders would have had intimate knowledge of the surrounding area and therefore would mostly likely have been local residents. However John Byers one of the victim’s fathers was a local resident and was searching for his son for most of the night and still did not find the crime scene. This then implies that the perpetrators had specialized knowledge of the area and that perhaps were hunters of some kind or part of an organization such as scouts that frequents bushy