Sex Offender 2 Flashcards
what is the new concepts?
cognitive psych
- distorted thoughts/beliefs/attitudes
- schemata
- implicit theories
criticism for distorted thought/beleifs
piecemeal
criticism for schemata
definitional inconsistencies fails to generate predictions
- you encounter things and try to make sense of them and understand the relationship with relation to everything else
implicit theories
biases and understandings - assumption for pseudo dating status and what is next
- focus is general and flexible
christmas tree analogy
a tree is like a structure that gives order and strucuture to everything else around it in respect to the tree
what is schemata?
way of making sense of the world
- cog structures
- filter social info
- great influence interpretation of events
what connects specific relationships to schemata?
implicit theories
what are the products of the connections?
attitudes
beleifs
perceptions
attributions
bheavior
what is used to modify, build, reconstruct, remove schemata and connection?
cognitive processes
what are the 4 main rapist classifications?
displaced
compensatory
sexually sadistic
impuslive
according to psychoanalytic theory was are displacement and compensatory?
defense mechansism and there are motivating influences
how does Freud describe displaced rape?
internal conflict that is unaddressed and take the impulses and translate it to something you can dominate
what is displaced?
- not about sex -> expression hostility in a sexual way
- brutality
- perpetrated by stranger
- humiliate and demean victim
- less about genitalia
- neg attitudes twd females in general -> unfaithful, demanding, controlling
- ambivalent toward female
- anger and violent in other aspects
- FREQ reporting of chaotic upbringing - blame F
compensatory
- highly aroused during offense
- IT IS sexual
- M often meek, wimpy and want to compensate for social ineptitude through rape
- lack of effiicacy and sense of deficiency and pathologically try to overcompensate
- arousal and fantasies are themed
- NOT sadistic or violent
- wants victims to fall in lvoe with them and submit once experienced masculine and skilled
- study/stalk
- rejection = unbearable
- flee if facing resistance
- record of other criminal acitivites
- limtied aspirations and lwo self-esteem
- others don’t see them as rapists
sadistic
- aggression and sexual arousal
- sees victim resistance as playing “hard to get”
- often married
- DV/ unstable marriage
- murder or injure potentially
- UNDERSTAND THEY CAUSING HARM and watch victim being harmed
impulsive
generalist
-rapre off-shoot of another crime
- not gratuitous vioelnce
- doesnt care about victim
- highly antisocial
- not aware of the harm they are causing - high psychoticism
cognitive def of displaced
- neg schema towards women
- processing biased toward misogynistic attitudes
- rage twd women
- use sex as an outlet for anger and hostility (not paraphilic)
- women = bitches and whore who have it coming and show what a real man is
-> address the trauma
how is compensatory described cognitively?
distorted theories about relationship
- emotionally isolated
- fantasize about non-sad rap
- distorted processing and perception of interpersonal behavior
- neg self-schema -> want attention and compliments
- shes lucky im paying attention to her, no means yes, she loves it, women are sluts, if she didnt want it then shouldbe have dressed that way, bought her dinner
how is sexually sadistic described cognitively
- detached affect and self-focused
- depersonalize victim
- tuned in to pain and powerlessness
- truly paraphilic
- turned on by overpowering her, totally helpless, i can do whatever
- less likely to get into therpy and stay in it
how is opportunistic described cognitively
- cog deconstruction
- schemata self-centered
- separate act from usual view of self
- avoids self-eval
- women are like property
- not truly paraphilic (not interested in raping first)
- i didnt hurt her, sexual object, whats the big deal, no perv, just got carried away
what do the categories differentiate based on?
social competence
- add vindictive rapists
what is rape seen as?
pseudo-sexual
power rape
> 50%
- conquest and control
- hopes vicitm will become sexually aroused herslef
- increase force/ violence to subdue -> close to comp rape
anger rape
excessive force, lots of brutality
- swears and yells
- sex is dirty
- issues with F figures
- like displaced rape
sadistics
- aroused by pain, helplessness, suffering
- bondage and torture
- most likely to murder
-> like sex sadistic
what are the 5 etiology?
social roles
immaturity
generalized sadism
associative condition
limited inhibition
social roles
manly to report sexual conquest - societal expectations
im the boss
- 1/3 of normal males acknowledge rape fantasies
- 54% male have coercive fantasies
immaturity
inadequate social and dating skills
- fantasize and masturbate than actual partners -> less exposure to porn
- sex is forbidden topic by parents
generlized sadism
rapists aroused by non-sex violence twd women
associative condition
- LEARNING THEORY
- orgasmic conditioning: pairing sexual stimulation/orgasm with deviant images and fantasis (pav)
- non-deviant sex interests -> fetishes (learned)
limited inhibition
increased by media
- does not explain paraphilia
- lack of general control
does aggression = rape?
no
what are the 3 factors highly correlated with collateral measures of aggression?
- viewer’s lvl of sex arousal - paraphilic
- lvl of aggression
- rxn of victim -> non paraphilic dont like causing pain and not aroused
what is pedophilia?
SUSTAINED EROTIC INTEREST
- prepubescnet - pedo
- pubsecent - hebe
what is illegal with pedo?
when it is acted upon
2 types of pedo
exclusive: kids
inclusive: adults and kids
- preferred gender
how many F children and M children are sex victims?
0.25-0.33 and 0.10
how many make formal complaints about being victims?
35%
how many US men SA a child and who are they?
5-10%
young men who mostly are not repeat offenders
how many pedos offend?
3/4 against F children
what is more prevalent action?
fondling
oral genital contact
do the offenders know the victim?
yes
- child requests hugs and misinterpreted as sexual advances
- can happen over time
is violence common?
no only 10-15%
what are the most common attempts?
bribery
emotional blackmail
unsophisticated manipulation
lying
how many intra-familial child abusers?
10 and 25%
who are offenders?
almost all M
- 5% F against girls
- 24% against M
toward late 30s
aggressive child molesters tend to resemble _____
rapists
- high alcohol abuse
- school failure
- low SES
- unstable work history
what is common for offenders?
efforts to deny or minimize responsibility
fixated
socially immature
passive and timid
limited legitimate sexual/romantic history
- unliekly employ force/violence
- doesnt want/expect intercourse
- not distressed by paraphilia - treatment refractory
- abundant grooming
- seeks children for sexual, social purpose
- uncomfy around adults
- avg intellect
regressed
- fairly normal adol
- doubt masculinity thereafter
- offend in respond to marked stressors or assault to his personal confidence
- E-OH issue
- employment and maritial histories troubled
exploitative
- stranger
- isolate child
- lengthy history of AS conduct
- trickery to lure child
- objectifies child, no force
- poor social skills and rejected by adults
- poor treatment candidate
sadistic
homosexual
arousal closely tied to pain and suffering of victim
- abduct and murder
- John Wayne Gacy: murdered more than 30 teen boys after sex or during sex torture
how much of a difference for heteropedos vs homopedos recidivism?
almost double
how many pedos not interedted in stopping?
90%
- sexual interests are part of their self-identitty
- establish a perference
is forensic rehab successful?
not the most successful
- treated 14% and untreated 32%
what is etiology categories?
- emotional congruence: like regressed and similar to child rather than adult
- sexual arousal: attracted to child - true pedo
- blockage: substitution (cant have sex with somone else so have it with a child)
- disinhibition: neuro or drugs/alcohol
self-report
have to acknowledge offenders statement
- naturally motivated to reduce negative consequences
- reluctant to accept responsibility - cog distortions
PSR
pre-sentence reports
- probation officers see things over time and can see things from a certain POV
fantasy questionnaires
some transparent like Clark Institute
- decent memory and truthfully anser then well-documents
PPG
also known as erotic preference test
- view material in systmeatic way with counterbalance in a controlled manner to see response to different categories
- have to include neutral material
- erotic preference profile created
phallometric testing
circumferential
volumetric
-> strain gauges
-> mercury strain gauge
-> volumetric strain gauge: length b/f circumference when erection
vaginal photoplethysmograph
arousal = blood flow to the vag
- diode and photorecptor shines light and it shows arousal when the pic are shown
- takes logner for f bc only happen 3-4 times (not constantly reliable)
