Sexual Offenders Flashcards
What are the 3 levels of sexual assault ? what is sexual coercion ? aggression ?
- Level 1 is sexual assault, 2 sexual assault with a weapon and 3 aggravated sexual assault
- Sexual coercion is the use of lies or manipulation to engage in sexual behaviors with someone
- Sexual agression involves using physical force for nonconsensual sex like drugs
What are some physical and psychological consequences of sexual violence ?
Physical: STI’s, injuries/bruises, unwanted pregnancies
Psychological: symptoms of depression, anxiety or PTSD
What are 2 psychological disorders that can be caused by sexual violence ?
- Rape trauma syndrome
- in the acute phase, this includes heightened fear, anxiety or depression
- in the long term this can include the development of phobias - PTSD
- long-term effects
What leads to underreporting? What are some factors that increase the likelihood of reporting ?
Underreporting:
- lack of evidence, feelings of guilt or shame, scared of perp
Increase in reporting:
- presence of a weapon, use of physical force, if the perp is a stranger
What is Finkelhors Precondition model ?
States there are 4 factors that must be met for sexual abuse to occur:
- motivation to sexually abuse
- Offenders lack of internal inhibitions
- Offender must overcome external inhibitors
- Offender must overcome Childs resistance
What is the Marshall and barbare integrated model of sexual aggression ?
Theorizes sexual offending as multifactorial including:
- Biological factors
- Childhood experiences
- Sociocultural influences
- Situational events
What is paraphilia ?
persistant and intense sexual arousals which are outside the range of usual sexual interests like erotic activities or targets and arousal to coercive behavior
What are the 5 factors that contribute to sexual offending
- Deviant sexual arousal (like paraphilia, hyper sexuality)
- Antisocial orientation
- Cognitive distortions
- Social/interpersonal factors
- Behavior management
What are some cognitive distortions of schemas relate to sexual offending ?
- The world is a dangerous place
- Men are entitled to have sex with whoever they want
- Male sex drive is uncontrollable
- Women are sex objects
- Women can’t express their “true” desires
What are the non-contact sexual offender classifications ?
- Voyeurs
- Exhibitionists
- Online child abusers
What are the contact sexual offender classifications ?
- Rapists
2. Child molesters
What are risk factors for voyeurism? for exhibitionism ?
Voyeurism: childhood sexual abuse, substance abuse, sexual preoccupation, hyper-sexuality
Exhibitionism: antisocial personality, substance abuse, pedophilic interests, sexual preoccupation or impulsivity
What are some characteristics of online sexual offenders ?
- usually younger, more education higher IQ, lower rates of recidivism, greater victim empathy with less cognitive distortions
What are the 5 classifications of rapists according to the MTC:R3?
- Opportunistic
- Angry
- Sexual
- Sadistic
- Vindictive
What is Goths classification of rapists ?
- The anger rapist
- The power rapist
- The sadistic rapist
