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Compulsive Gynocide and Assaults (From Sex Murder and Sex Aggression: Phenomenology, Psychopathology, Psychodynamics and Prognosis, P 51-94, 1989, Eugene Revitch and Louis B Schlesginer -- See NCJ-118982)

NCJ Number
118985
Author(s)
E Revitch; L B Schlesinger
Date Published
1989
Length
44 pages
Annotation
Compulsive offenses result from the offender's extreme internal pressures to commit the crime and include physical and sexual assaults and murders of females.
Abstract
Sometime's the offender's struggle against the impulse may induce a condition of extreme tension that includes outward manifestations like sweating and headaches. Newspaper reports of violence and violence in movies and television shows have sometimes stimulated compulsive offenders to commit murders and other forms of violence. Other forms of compulsive violence include corporate murder, committed by pairs of offenders; compulsive serial killings; multiple sex offenses against children; cannibalism and vampirism; necrophilia; and strangulation of women. In addition, some cases of breaking and entering and purse snatching have underlying sexual meanings rather than being common crimes committed for gain. Descriptions of nine cases of sexually motivated compulsive gynocide and sexual aggression are detailed.

Sale Source
Charles C. Thomas
Address

2600 South First Street, Springfield, IL 62704, United States

Publication Type
Issue Overview
Language
English
Country
United States of America