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JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE 7 September 1986 assailant, the or ganized offenders had 67 victims and the disorganized had 16. OF the 16 vict-ms of the disorganized offenders, 10 used nonforceful resistance: acquiescence Or verbal resistance) and were killed. With the orgaiized offender, 45 out of 67 victims used non- forceful resistance and died as well. In total, 55 out of 83 victims used nonforceful resistance. The data suggest that nonforceful resistance was not a deterrent with either of these offender types. The interpretation of what is considered forceful resistance is important to clarify. We identified screaming and fleeing as physical (forceful) reactions because offenders specifically cited those victim responses as the reason for their use of increased aggression. Witha majority of the offenders interviewed, both physical and verbal (or forceful and nonforceful) resistance played a part in triggering a reaction by the offenders. Analmost equal number of victims in our sample were said to have resisted physically (25) as were said to have made no attempt at resistance (23). Both types of victim actions resulted in death. The FBI agents interviewed the murderers about deterrence to kill. This information was analyzed in terms of the organized/ disorganized dichotomy. Organized murderers, who had a conscious intent based on motive to kill, said that factors such as witnesses and location did not matter because the murder fantasy was SO well rehearsed that everything was controlled (‘I always killed in my home, and there were no witnesses”). Or as one murderer said, “The victim did not have a choice. Killing was part of my fantasy.” Also, the organized murderer with the detailed fantasy to kill either believed that he would never be caught or that he would have to be killed to be stopped. On the other hand, disorganized offenders, who were not consciously aware of their intent to kill, were able to identify factors that might deter their killing. They stated such deterrence factors as being ina populated location, having witnesses in the area, or COOp- eration from the victim. Surviving Victims The surviving victims of murderers in the study provide insights about victim-murderer interactions in the context of the organized and disorganized classification. Victims who survived murder at- tempts of these killers used the following strategies: hiding from the assailant, jumping out of a car, feigning death, escaping the area, 75