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Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 511-524, September/October 2024.
Abstract Stalking can be defined as a pattern of fixated, repeated, and unwanted behaviours. Stalking is not an isolated incident and was associated to sexual violence. While the relationship between sexual violence and stalking is scarcely explored, no studies have tested the relationship between stalking and sexual homicide, which both involves ...
Ewa Stefanska, Nicholas Longpré
wiley   +1 more source

Neural correlates of sexual cue reactivity in individuals with and without compulsive sexual behaviours [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although compulsive sexual behaviour (CSB) has been conceptualized as a "behavioural" addiction and common or overlapping neural circuits may govern the processing of natural and drug rewards, little is known regarding the responses to sexually explicit ...
A Ferretti   +75 more
core   +3 more sources

Murdering the person closest to you: Similarities and differences between intimate partner sexual homicide and non‐intimate partner sexual homicide

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 560-587, September/October 2024.
Abstract Sexual homicides (SHs) demand nuanced research for effective prevention, treatment, risk assessment and theoretical insights. Intimate‐partner sexual homicides (IPSHs), comprising approximately 20% of SHs, have received limited attention.
Marie Czarnietzki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Pornography addiction in adults: a systematic review of definitions and reported impact [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Self-perceived pornography addiction (SPPA) has increasingly emerged as a concept in research and popular culture, and commentators warn of the reported negative impact that it can have.
Athena Duffy   +64 more
core   +1 more source

Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 354-370, July/August 2024.
Abstract The nosology for criminals who murder multiple victims is at once well‐established and controversial, perhaps because theorists have largely segregated such offenders from the broader criminal population. The current study introduces the superhomicide offender, an individual convicted of at least five murders, to locate multiple homicide ...
Matt DeLisi
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 435-460, July/August 2024.
Abstract The present study examined distinctions between child (n = 30) and adult (n = 212) sexual homicide offenders (SHOs) in Australia and New Zealand, contributing to the limited international research on the subject. Data, primarily sourced from judges' sentencing comments on AustLII and New Zealand Legal Information Institute, revealed ...
Sophia Ricono‐Kaufhold   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Impulsive Behaviors in Patients With Pathological Buying [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aim To investigate impulsive behaviors in pathological buying (PB). Methods The study included three groups matched for age and gender: treatment seeking outpatients with PB (PB+), treatment seeking psychiatric inpatients without PB (PB−), and a healthy ...
Claes, Laurence   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 474-489, July/August 2024.
Abstract Sexual homicide (SH) research has focused on those who commit these crimes and the crimes themselves. This leaves the victim, an equally crucial piece to the puzzle, left as a sort of afterthought, despite the valuable insight that victimology provides to the crime.
Hana Georgoulis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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