The role of deviant sexual fantasy in the etiopathogenesis of sexual homicide: A systematic review

Aggression and Violent Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 294-302

  Maniglio, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental psychopathology; Etiopathogenesis; Fantasy; Risk factors; Sexual homicide; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD ABUSE; DEVIANT SEXUAL FANTASY; FANTASY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SADISM; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

EID: 77953292277     PISSN: 13591789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avb.2010.02.001     Document Type: Review

References (70)

1. Arrigo B.A., Purcell C.E. Explaining paraphilias and lust murder: Toward an integrated model. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2001, 45:6-31.
2. Bancroft J., Marks I. Electric aversion therapy of sexual deviations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 1968, 61:796-799.
3. Bartels R., Parsons C. The social construction of a serial killer. Feminism & Psychology 2009, 19:267-280.
4. Beauregard E., Proulx J. Profiles in the offending process of nonserial sexual murderers. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2002, 46:386-399.
5. Beauregard E., Proulx J. A classification of sexual homicide against men. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2007, 51:420-432.
6. Beauregard E., Lussier P., Proulx J. An exploration of developmental factors related to deviant sexual preferences among adult rapists. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 2004, 16:151-161.
7. Beauregard E., Stone M.R., Proulx J., Michaud P. Sexual murderers of children: Developmental, precrime, crime, and postcrime factors. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2008, 52:253-269.
8. Beech A., Fisher D., Ward T. Sexual murderer's implicit theories. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 2005, 20:1336-1389.
9. Brittain R.P. The sadistic sexual murderers. Medicine, Science and the Law 1970, 10:198-207.
10. Burgess A.W., Hartman C.R., Ressler R.K., Douglas J.E., McCormack A. Sexual homicide: A motivational model. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1986, 1:251-272.
11. Carabellese, F., Maniglio, R., Greco, O., & Catanesi, R. (in press). The role of fantasy in a serial sexual offender: A brief review of the literature and a case report. Journal of Forensic Sciences.
12. Cautela J.R. Covert sensitization. Psychological Reports 1967, 20:459-468.
13. CRD's guidance for undertaking reviews in health care 2008, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York Press, York.
14. Chan H.C., Heide K.M. Weapons used by juveniles and adult offenders in sexual homicides: An empirical analysis of 29years of US data. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 2008, 5:189-208.
15. Chan H.C., Heide K.M. Sexual homicide: A synthesis of the literature. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 2009, 10:31-54.
16. Clarke J., Carter A.J. Relapse prevention with sexual murderers. Remaking relapse prevention with sex offenders 2000, 389-401. Sage, London. D.R. Laws, S.M. Hudson, T. Ward (Eds.).
17. Claus C., Lidberg L. Serial murder as a "Schahriar Syndrome". Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 1999, 10:427-435.
18. Inclusion and appraisal of experimental and non-experimental (observational) studies 2007, Cochrane Review Group on HIV/AIDS, University of California, San Francisco, http://www.igh.org/Cochrane/pdfs/InclusionQuality.htm.
19. Dent R.J., Jowitt S. Homicide and serious sexual offences committed by children and young people: Findings from the literature and a serious case review. Journal of Sexual Aggression 2003, 9:85-96.
20. Dietz P.E., Hazelwood M.S., Warren D.S.W. The sexually sadistic criminal and his offenses. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1990, 16:163-178.
21. Douglas J.E., Burgess A.W., Burgess A.G., Ressler R.K. Crime classification manual: A standard system for investigating and classifying violent crimes 2006, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco. 2nd ed.
22. Systematic reviews in health care: Meta-analysis in context 2001, BMJ Publication Group, London. 2nd ed. M. Egger, G. Davey Smith, D.G. Altman (Eds.).
23. Folino J.O. Sexual homicide and their classification according to motivation: A report from Argentina. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2000, 44:740-750.
24. Gacono C.B., Meloy J.R. The Rorschach investigation of aggressive and psychopathic personalities 1994, Erlbaum, Mahwah.
25. Gacono C.B., Meloy J.R., Bridges M.R. A Rorschach comparison of psychopaths, sexual homicide perpetrators, and nonviolent pedophiles: Where angels fear to tread. Journal of Clinical Psychology 2000, 56:757-777.
26. Gellerman D.M., Suddath R. Violent fantasy, dangerousness, and the duty to warn and protect. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2005, 33:484-495.
27. Gratzer T., Bradford M.W. Offender and offense characteristics of sexual sadists: A comparative study. Journal of Forensic Sciences 1995, 40:450-455.
28. Gray S.R. A comparison of verbal satiation and minimal arousal conditioning to reduce deviant arousal in the laboratory. Sexual Abuse 1995, 7:143-153.
29. Grossman L.S., Martis B., Fichtner C.G. Are sex offenders treatable? A research overview. Psychiatric Services 1999, 50:349-361.
30. Grubin D. Sexual murder. British Journal of Psychiatry 1994, 165:624-629.
31. Hazelwood R.R., Burgess A.N. Practical aspects of rape investigation: A multidisciplinary approach 1987, Elsevier, New York.
32. Heide K.M., Beauregard E., Myers W.C. Sexually motivated child abduction murders: Synthesis of the literature and case illustration. Victims and Offenders 2009, 4:58-75.
33. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions 4.2.6 2006, John Wiley Sons, Chichester. J.P.T. Higgins, S. Green (Eds.).
34. Hodgskiss B. Lessons from serial murder in South Africa. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 2004, 1:67-94.
35. Holmes R.M., Holmes S.T. Murder in America 2001, Sage, Thousand Oaks. 2nd ed.
36. Johnson B.R., Becker J.V. Natural born killers? The development of the sexually sadistic serial killer. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1997, 25:335-348.
37. Keppel R.D., Walter R. Profiling killers: A revised classification model for understanding sexual murder. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 1999, 43:417-437.
38. Knight R.A., Sims-Knight J.E. The developmental antecedents of sexual coercion against women: Testing alternative hypotheses with structural equation modeling. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2003, 989:72-85.
39. Kocsis R.N., Cooksey R.W., Irwin H.J. Psychological profiling of sexual murders: An empirical model. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 2002, 46:532-554.
40. Krafft-Ebing R.V. Psychopathia sexualis. Eine klinisch-forensische studie 1886, Verlag Von Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart.
41. Laws D.R., Marshall W.L. Masturbatory reconditioning with sexual deviates: An evaluative review. Advances in Behavior Research and Therapy 1991, 13:13-25.
42. Leitenberg H., Henning K. Sexual fantasy. Psychological Bulletin 1995, 117:469-496.
43. Lipsey M.W., Wilson D.B. Practical meta-analysis 2000, Sage, Thousand Oaks.
44. MacCulloch M.J., Snowden P.R., Wood P.J.W., Mills H.E. Sadistic fantasy, sadistic behavior, and offending. British Journal of Psychiatry 1983, 143:20-29.
45. MacCulloch M., Gray N., Watt A. Brittain's sadistic murderer syndrome reconsidered: An associative account of the aetiology of sadistic sexual fantasy. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry 2000, 11:401-418.
46. Maletzky B.M. Self-referred versus court-referred sexually deviant patients: Success with assisted covert sensitization. Behavior Therapy 1980, 11:306-314.
47. Mallen C., Peat G., Croft P. Quality assessment of observational studies is not commonplace in systematic reviews. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2006, 59:765-769.
48. Maniglio R. The impact of child sexual abuse on health: A systematic review of reviews. Clinical Psychology Review 2009, 29:647-657.
49. Marks I.M., Gelder M.G. Transvestism and fetishism: Clinical and psychological changes during Faradic aversion. British Journal of Psychiatry 1967, 113:711-729.
50. Marquis J.N. Orgasmic reconditioning: Changing sexual object choice through controlling masturbation fantasies. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 1970, 1:263-271.
51. Marshall W.L. Satiation therapy: A procedure for reducing deviant sexual arousal. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 1979, 12:377-389.
52. McCarthy J.B. Narcissism and the self in homicidal adolescents. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 1978, 38:19-29.
53. Meloy J.R. The nature and dynamics of sexual homicide: An integrative review. Aggression and Violent Behavior 2000, 5:1-32.
54. Meloy J.R., Gacono C.B., Kenney L. A Rorschach investigation of sexual homicide. Journal of Personality Assessment 1994, 62:58-67.
55. Milsom J., Beech A.R., Webster S.D. Emotional loneliness in sexual murderers: A qualitative analysis. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 2003, 15:285-296.
56. Myers W.C., Blashfield R. Psychopathology and personality in juvenile sexual homicide offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1997, 25:497-508.
57. Myers W.C., Reccoppa L., Burton K., McElroy R. Malignant sex and aggression: An overview of serial sexual homicide. Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 1993, 21:435-451.
58. Myers W.C., Burgess A.W., Nelson J.A. Criminal and behavioral aspects of juvenile sexual homicide. Journal of Forensic Sciences 1998, 43:340-347.
59. Petticrew M., Roberts H. Systematic reviews in the social sciences: A practical guide 2006, Blackwell Publishing, Malden.
60. Prentky R.A., Burgess A.W., Rokous F., Lee A., Hartman C., Ressler R., et al. The presumptive role of fantasy in serial sexual homicide. American Journal of Psychiatry 1989, 146:887-891.
61. Reinhardt R. Sex perversion and sex crimes: A psychocultural examination of the causes, nature and criminal manifestations of sex perversions 1957, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield.
62. Ressler R.K., Burgess A.W., Hartman C.R., Douglas J.E., McCormack A. Murderers who rape and mutilate. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 1986, 1:273-287.
63. Ressler R.K., Burgess A.W., Douglas J.E. Sexual homicide: Patterns and motive 1988, Free Press, New York.
64. Revitch E. Sex murder and the potential sex murderer. Diseases of the Nervous System 1965, 26:640-648.
65. Roberts J.V., Grossman M.G. Sexual homicide in Canada: A descriptive analysis. Annals of Sex Research 1993, 6:5-25.
66. Schlesinger L.B. Sexual murder: Catathymic and compulsive homicides 2004, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
67. Schlesinger L.B. Sexual homicide: Differentiating catathymic and compulsive murders. Aggression and Violent Behavior 2007, 12:242-256.
68. Slavin R.E. Best evidence synthesis: An intelligent alternative to meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 1995, 48:9-18.
69. Stroup D.F., Berlin J.A., Morton S.C., Olkin I., Williamson G.D., Rennie D., et al. Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology: A proposal for reporting. Journal of the American Medical Association 2000, 283:2008-2012.
70. Wells G.A., Shea B., O'Connell D., Peterson J., Welch V., Losos M., et al. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for Assessing the Quality of Nonrandomized Studies in Meta-analyses 2006, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, http://www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.htm.