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Chapter 5! Flashcards

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Paraphilia

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SEXUAL AROUSAL OR SEXUAL GRATIFICATION THROUGH UNUSUAL FANTASIES AND/OR BEHAVIORS

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PARAPHILIA: The DSM-IV describes three general classifications:

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Preference for the use of a non-human object for sexual arousal
Repetitive sexual activity with humans that involves real or simulated suffering or humiliation
Repetitive sexual activity with non-consenting partners
Common mostly to males, paraphilia involves sexual arousal through deviant or bizarre images and/or activities.
Many paraphilia are not criminal but may develop into criminal acts.

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Sarason and Sarason 5 explanations for paraphilia:

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Psychodynamic
Behavioral 
Cognitive
Biological
Interactional
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PARAPHILIA HAVE THREE COMPONENTS:

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ETIOLOGY, FANTASY & BEHAVIOR.

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NON-CRIMINAL

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SOLO or PARTNER-RELAT

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CRIMINAL:

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SOLO or PARTNER- RELATED

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FANTASY

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CRITICAL TO ACTING OUT
OFTEN EXPRESSED IN TALK WITH OTHERS
SOMETIMES EXPRESSED IN WRITINGS
CONTAINS ANGER, RAGE AND A DESIRE FOR REVENGE
RELATIONSHIPS ARE FANTASIZED
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Psychological Factors in RPA

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Intangible attachments: intimacy
Frustration
Fantasy: paraphilic courtship
Psychopathy: control/power

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Voyeurs (Scopophilia)

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arousal by watching others without their consent

Stalking/Peeping

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Exhibitionists

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Genital Exposure to Strangers

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Frotteurs (Frottage)

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rubbing body against partner or object for arousal

Sexual Contact w/Strangers

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Fetishism

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Burglary, Stealing, Murder…

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Necrophiles

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Prostitution, Graves, Mortuaries

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Gerontophiliacs

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attraction to a partner whose age is that of a different generation
Stalking, Burglary, (progressive)

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Preparatory Paraphila-Hebephiliacs

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persons aroused by teens

Age-focused Predators

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Hyphephiliacs

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arousal from touching skin, hair, leather, fur, or fabric

Hair, Fur, Leather, Skin: Stealing, Assaults, Burglaries, Robberies

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Kleptolagniacs

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arousal from stealing

Stealing

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Retifism

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shoe fetish

Stealing, Burglaries,

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Scatophiliacs (Scatologia)

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arousal by making phone calls, using vulgar language, or trying to elicit a reaction from the other party
Obscene Phone Calls

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Preparatory Paraphilia-Somnophiliacs:

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fondling strangers in their sleep
Hot Burglaries (very progressive)
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Four types of relational rapes

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Marital, Courtship, Confidence or blitz, Stranger rape

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Marital

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where the rapist is the spouse of the victim;

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Courtship

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where an offender in pursuit of a relationship with someone he knows forces the victim into a sexual relationship;

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Confidence or blitz

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rapes, where offenders win the trust of a victim in order to carry out a sexual assault;

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Stranger rape

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which involves an attack on a victim who is a complete stranger to the rapist

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The Massachusetts Treatment Center ‘s (MTC) four categories of rapists:

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Displaced aggression
Compensatory
Sexually aggressive
Impulsive

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Crime Scene Signatures

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A unique and integral part of the an offender’s behavior that exceeds the actions needed to commit the offense

Crime scene evidence offering insight to personality traits and/or behavioral patterns of the offender

Signatures are products of offenders’ fantasies and behaviors

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Modus Operandi

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Techniques necessary to commit crime

Learned behavior based on external circumstances

May intentionally change as offender gains experience/ confidence or to fool law enforcement

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Signature

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Actions beyond those necessary to commit crime

Compulsion based on fantasies unique to offender

Seldom changes and often evolves with each crime

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Signatures May Include:

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Verbal – exceptionally vulgar or abusive language

Sexual – Specific order of sexual activity, necrophilia, use of foreign objects, posing

Physical – torture, bondage, mutilation

Psychological– inducing fear

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Signature behaviors frequently found in serial-murder investigations:

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Aberrant sex
Attacks at the face
Body disposal
Cannibalism
Decapitation
Dismemberment
Mutilation
Necrophilia
Torture
Penile/object penetration
Picquerism (sexual arousal from repeated stabbing of a victim)
Restraints
Souvenirs (photos, clothing, jewelry, newspaper clippings)
Trophies (victim body parts used for sexual arousal)
Weapons
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An essential tool of the psychopath who is a sexual predator is…

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distraction

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Sex offenders:

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Commit few crimes
Usually only one victim
Often familial
Non-progressive
Not a threat to the general community
Non-psychopathic
Usually non-paraphilic
Usually amenable to treatment/control
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Sexual predators:

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Commit many sex crimes
Multiple victims or multiple counts on a victim over time
Both stranger and/or familial victims
Progressively exploitative
Pose a threat to the general community
Often psychopathic
Often have multiple paraphilia
Usually not amenable to treatment
Highly recidivistic
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Attack Paraphilia-Sadism:

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empowerment and arousal derived from injuring others; often associated with other attack paraphilia

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Masochism

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inflicting mental/physical pain on oneself

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Transsexualism

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changing of ones sex

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Transvestism

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a person and especially a male who adopts the dress and often the behavior typical of the opposite sex especially for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification

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Attack Paraphilia-Pedophilia

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sexual involvement with minors usually via manipulation and grooming

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Zoophilia

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sexual involvement with a nonhuman such as a animal

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Child molesters

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Sexual predators who engage in paraphilic behavior often form sexual attachments to their victims.

Sex becomes an expression of control, both tangible and intangible.

Sexual attachments are explored both in fantasy and behavior.

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Lust killing

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murdering sadistically and brutally, including the mutilation of body parts, especially the genitalia
generally women are prostitutes, hitchhikers, or student
one who practices erotophonophilia

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Motivations

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opportunistic, pervasively, angry, sexual, and vindictive

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Expressive homicides

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sexual or hate crimes

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Instrumental homicides

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those or more carried out for financial gain

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Autoerotic asphyxia

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sexual arousal due to self-mutilation such as hanging

which most commonly involves masturbation to pornography, fantasies, or images

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Groth typology

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power and anger

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Three explanations for rape:

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  1. psychopathology of rapists 2. feminist theory, 3. victim precipitation

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