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Inclusion criteria requirements for the study were the following: (1) The offender was under investigation for a child sex crime at the time of his death, (2) the offender was aware that he was being investigated, and (3) the offender’s death was officially ruled a suicide or involved a suicide-by-cop scenario, as determined by a coroner, medical examiner, or through investigative records. A child sex crime was defined as receiving, possessing, distributing, or producing child pornography, traveling to have sex with a minor, or sexually molesting a child(ren). One hundred and six active investigations between 1998 and 2010 were examined in this study. Cases were primarily identified through the FBI’s internal Automated Case Support (ACS) database with additional cases provided by local and state law enforcement agencies. Cases represented 39 FBI field offices and 32 states. The method of identifying subjects included using query terms such as “suicide,” “death,” “killed,” and “self-harm.”
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The criteria for inclusion into the study were cases at each investigative process, such as following a knock and talk, search warrant, prior to or following an arrest warrant, a plea agreement, a trial, conviction, sentencing, or incarceration.
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The FBI’s BAU-III has examined the reliability and validity of the assessment questionnaire.
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Hoffer, T.A., Shelton, J.L.E. (2013). III. Method. In: Suicide Among Child Sex Offenders. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5937-8_3
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