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JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL. VIOLENCE / September 1986 classified into eight categories: demographics, physical appearance, lifestyle, family structure, subject’s early background history, family problems, subject's discipline/abuse, and subject’s sexual history. (2) Offense | fon offense). “Thus file contains variables obtained from the offenses (e.g., the crime scenes). ‘Phere are 119 variables in this file, which contains information for cach separate crime. Vari- ables in this file are classified into four categories: leading to the offense (such as frame of mind, premeditation of crime, and precipi- tating events); offender dress and residence variables relating to the offender at the time of offense; action during offense variables (such as conversation and behavior toward victim, weapons, and substance abuse); postoffense variables (such as keeping news clippings and visiting crime scene site and victim’s grave). (3) Victim 2 (on offense). This file contains 57 variables and is divided into two subsets: (1) victim characteristics (such as victim age, sex, height, weight, physique, race, complexion, attractiveness, mari- tal status, residence, socioeconomic status, and actions during offense); and (2) offender's actions and behavior during the offense (such as victim mode of death, body position, sexual acts before and after death, postmortem acts, postmortem mutilation, and disposition of the body). (4) Crime Scene(on offense). This file contains 47 variables and is divided into four categories: (1) vehicle variables relating to the mode of transportation of the offender and the description of his vehicle; (2) use of vehicle variable describing how a vehicle was used in the crime; (3) variables concerning physical evidence (weapon, finger- prints, and so on, left at the crime scene); and (4) distance variables measuring the distance from the crime scene to the victim’s home, to the offender’s home, and so on. Data Analysis Basically, the analysis was directed at testing for statistically signif- icant differences between the organized and disorganized murderers. For variables in the Background Information data file, the unit of analysis was the murderer. The maximum sample sizes were 24 for the organized group of offenders and 12 for the disorganized group. For variables in the other data files, the maximum sample sizes were 97 victims for the organized and 21 victims for the disorganized offenders. 65