NCJ Number
26079
Journal
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY, DELINQUENCY, AND DEVIANT SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Dated: (APRIL 1975) Pages: 175-180
Date Published
1975
Length
6 pages
Annotation
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ELUCIDATE THE TYPICAL FEATURES IN THOSE PEDOPHILIA CASES, NOT INCESTUOUS, WHERE THE INITIATION OF THE ACTS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VICTIM'S PRECIPITATING OR INITIATING BEHAVIOR.
Abstract
THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 64 CASES OF PEDOFILIA OCCURRING BETWEEN THE YEARS 1951 AND 1972, WHICH HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO MENTAL EXAMINATION AT THE PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC OF THE HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL. OF THESE 64 CONTROL CASES, 31 (48.4) PER CENT WERE VICTIM-PRECIPITATED. THESE MANIFESTED THEMSELVES IN VISITS MADE TO THE OFFENDER ON THE VICTIM'S OWN INITIATIVE AND IN TAKING SOME KIND OF INITIATIVE IN THE OFFENCE ITSELF. IN THOSE CASES WHERE FEATURES OF THE VICTIM'S PRECIPITATION WERE INVOLVED, THE OFFENDERS HAD CLEARLY A WEAKER INTELLIGENCE THAN OTHER PEDOPHILIA OFFENDERS AND USUALLY THEIR INTELLIGENCE LEVEL HAD DECLINED SECONDARILY AS A CONSEQUENCE OF DIFFERENT BRAIN PROCESSES, CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA, ETC. THEY HAD LESS CRIMINALITY OF OTHER KINDS, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY. THE VICTIMS HAD MORE OFTEN KNOWN THE OFFENDER AND THE OFFENCES HAD MORE OFTEN BEEN LINKED WITH BRIBERY, IN THE SUBJECTS THAN IN THE CONTROLS. ALSO THE VICTIMS BECAME THE OBJECTS OF THE OFFENCES MORE THAN ONCE, AND THERE WERE MORE OFTEN SEVERAL VICTIMS, IN THE SUBJECTS THAN IN THE CONTROLS. NO AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR, IN CONTRAST TO THE CONTROLS, WAS LINKED TO THE VICTIM-PRECIPITATED OFFENCES. A LIST OF REFERENCES IS INCLUDED. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)