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Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 338-353, July/August 2024.
Abstract Although most people have heard the terms ‘souvenirs’, ‘trophies’, and ‘mementos’, discussed in books and movies on the true crimes of sexual murderers, limited research has delved into the phenomenon of theft in sexual homicide (SH). Using a sample of 762 SH cases coming from the Sexual Homicide International Database, the current study ...
Megan Walter   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Be a Pervert: A Modest Philosophical Critique of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

open access: yesRevista de Estudios Sociales, 2012
This paper is divided into three parts. I begin with a short history of the way American psychiatrists have defined mental disorder in general, and paraphilias (sexual perversions) in particular, from the 1950s to 2013.
Patrick Singy
doaj  

Ideology and Values in Healthcare: A Commentary on Baker's (2025) Medical Lysenkoism

open access: yes
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2025.
Mathew Mercuri, Alexandra Calzavara
wiley   +1 more source

To Buy or Not to Buy?:Vulnerability and the Criminalisation of Commercial BDSM [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines the interaction of law and policy making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that
Cowan, Sharon
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Teaching Forensic Paraphilia in Undergraduate and Graduate Human Sexuality: A Note from the Field

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Social Work
Part of being a social work professor is teaching human sexuality, including paraphilias. Approaching such emotionally charged topics intellectually can be particularly difficult when teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels in higher education ...
Nafees Alam
doaj   +1 more source

The Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI): Construct, Predictive, and Incremental Validity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study of 410 adult male sex offenders against children, using data from the Dynamic Supervision Project (Hanson, Harris, Scott, & Helmus, 2007), examined the construct, predictive, and incremental validity of the Screening Scale for Pedophilic ...
Helmus, L.   +2 more
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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SEXUAL DIMORPHISM [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2009
The aim of this study was to examine the structure and intensity of relation-ships between dimensions of sexual behavior and personal characteristics in the context of sexual dimorphism. The sample included 233 participants (both genders, mean age 29,34).
Bojana Dinic, Goran Knezevic
doaj  

Algunos aspectos sobre la gerontofilia. Una revisión bibliográfica

open access: yesRevista Médica Electrónica
Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre una de las parafilias menos mencionada por la literatura, la gerontofilia. Se definió como las actividades sexuales con personas ancianas, actos o fantasías, la cual constituye la especificidad fundamental, es ...
José Fernando Placeres Hernández
doaj  

Adjudicating Sex Crimes as Mental Disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The psychiatric diseases of the paraphilias are now entrenched in the law in decisions concerning culpability, desert, and risk. Though, as the foregoing cases suggest, it is a tough balancing act, considering the existence of psychiatric illness ...
Hamilton, Melissa
core   +1 more source

Why I Study' Bisexuality and beyond

open access: yes, 2006
This article addresses bisexuality, non-monogamy and SM and the ways these are represented in psychological literature. It offers some challenges to conventional perceptions and ways forward for studying these areas, based in my experiences of ...
Barker, Meg
core  

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