Necrophilia and Sexual Homicide

Stein, Michelle L.; Schlesinger, Louis B.; Pinizzotto, Anthony J.

doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2009.01282.x

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“…The few empirical studies of necrophilia (noting that both in the present study, and in previous research, post mortem sexual interference following homicide rarely indicates presence of paraphilia according to diagnostic criteria, e.g. other specified paraphilic disorder -necrophilia; DSM-V, American Psychiatric Association, 2013), offer two main hypotheses: A perpetrator who is fearful of rejection by women seeks an unresisting partner, or murder itself failed to satisfy the desire to act out deviant fantasies (Rosman & Resnick, 1989;Stein et al, 2010). Both inferences are consistent with the profile of an individual unable to achieve fulfilling intimate relationships, resorting to sadistic fantasies to overcome emotional loneliness and resentment towards women.…”

Section: In the Developmental Block Antisocial Behavior And Developmsupporting

confidence: 63%

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The developmental and criminal histories of subgroups of sexual murderers engaging, or not engaging, in post mortem sexual interference, compared to rapists

Higgs

Stefanska

Carter

et al. 2017

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Identifying factors that may predict sexual aggression in the context of directly sexual murder, indirectly sexual murder, and non-fatal outcomes is necessary for advancing a field lacking a substantiated multifactorial theoretical model. Methods. Eighty-nine sexual murderers engaging in post mortem sexual interference were compared to 92 non-post mortem sexual interference sexual murderers and 72 rapists on developmental factors, adult lifestyle, and criminal history. An overall model was built using a series of multinomial logistic regression analyses. Results. Unlike rapists, both groups of sexual murderers experienced a lack of success in sexually intimate relationships. Perpetrators of post mortem sexual interference were rarely necrophiles, but having a history of sadistic behaviors or interests uniquely predicted sexual murder involving post mortem sexual interference. Chronic violent and sexual offending was characteristic of rapists. Psychopathy, measured using the screening version of the Psychopathy Checklist (Hart, Cox, & Hare, 1995), was not predictive of any outcome. Conclusion. Results support criticism of existing theoretical models; that they do not apply to non-sadistic sexual murder. Findings are discussed in relation to gaps in theoretical understanding of sexual murder, and concerning implications for forensic policies and practice.

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Section: In the Developmental Block Antisocial Behavior And Developmsupporting

confidence: 63%

“…According to this definition, post mortem sexual interference does not necessarily represent a necrophilic subgroup of sexual murderers. Indeed, when these behaviors are attached to murder, typically the motivation is not sexual activity with a corpse (Stein, Schlesinger, & Pinizzotto, 2010).…”

Section: Developmental and Criminal Histories Of Sexual Aggressorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The developmental and criminal histories of subgroups of sexual murderers engaging, or not engaging, in post mortem sexual interference, compared to rapists

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Stefanska

Carter

et al. 2017

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Only a few studies examined psychiatric disorders in sexual homicide offenders (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). These revealed high rates of paraphilias, especially sexual sadism and antisocial, schizoid, and narcissistic personality disorders.…”

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Sociodemographic and Diagnostic Characteristics of Homicidal and Nonhomicidal Sexual Offenders*

Koch

Berner

Hill

et al. 2011

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and "psychopathy" in homicidal and nonhomicidal sexual offenders and to investigate the specificity of previous studies on psychiatric morbidity of a sample of sexual murderers. Information from court reports of 166 homicidal and 56 nonhomicidal sex offenders was evaluated using standardized instruments (SCID-II, PCL-R) and classification systems (DSM-IV). Sexual murderers were diagnosed more often with a personality disorder (80.1% vs. 50%; p < 0.001), especially schizoid personality disorder (16.3% vs. 5.4%; p < 0.05), as well as with sexual sadism (36.7% vs. 8.9%; p < 0.001) and sexual dysfunctions (21.7% vs. 7.1%; p < 0.05). Additionally, they had more often used alcohol during the offense (63.2% vs. 41%; p < 0.05). The results indicate that sexual murderers have more and a greater variety of psychiatric disorders when compared to nonhomicidal sex offenders.

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“…A recent study analyzed 16 sexual-homicide cases in which necrophilic activity was present. 6 They found this case of homicide to be the least common type, constituting of less than 1% of all homicides. However, none of their subjects killed with the goal of obtaining a corpse, which excludes them from the necrophilic homicide group.…”

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confidence: 98%