Full Description
This book provides the first systematic overview of the theoretical, empirical, clinical, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder. Bringing together leading researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners from across eight different countries, this is a truly international collaboration and an essential reference text for students, researchers, and professionals interested in sexual homicide, as well as an exhaustive source of guidelines for the assessment and treatment of sexual murderers. This book is divided into five parts:
Part I, Theories and research, presents a detailed review of theoretical models and empirical studies of sexual homicide.
Part II, Sexual sadism, discusses theoretical, empirical, and clinical considerations and reviews the literature on the characteristics of sadistic sexual aggressors.
Part III, Clinical issues, discusses the assessment and management of sexual murderers at each phase of the judicial process: at trial, during incarceration, and during follow-up in the community.
Part IV, Policing issues, discusses research and practical issues related to police activities surrounding a sexual murder. Topics include investigation, offender and geographical profiling, behavioural linkage, and police interrogation of the murderers.
Part V, New directions, presents new directions for the study of sexual homicide and discusses the limits of current knowledge related to sexual murderers and their crimes.
Offering a broad and comprehensive approach, this Handbook is an indispensable source of information on theory, research, clinical assessment, treatment, and police issues related to sexual murderers and murder.
Contents
Foreword, Tony Beech Introduction, Jean Proulx Section 1: Theories and Research. Coordinator: Jean Proulx 1. Sexual Homicide Studies: An International, Perspective Jean Proulx 2. Sexual Homicide: A Review of the Main Theoretical Models, Oliver Chan 3. The Sexual Psychopath, Stephen Porter and Katherine Rose 4. Sexual Murderers' Sexual Lifestyle: An Internal Constraint to Modus Operandi? Stéphanie Langevin, Jonathan James, Jean Proulx and Elen Vuidard 5. Serial and Nonserial Sexual Murderers: An Exploratory Study of Developmental Antecedents, Jonathan James, Patrick Lussier and Jean Proulx 6. Psychological and Criminological Factors in Diverse Types of Sexual Murderers, Tamsin Higgs and Ewa Stefanska 7. Understanding the Sexual Element in Sexual Murder, Ewa Stefanska and Tamsin Higgs 8. Sexual Murderers of Children: Psychopathological and Modus Operandi Factors, Jean Proulx, Jonathan James, Mélina Siwic and Eric Beauregard 9. Sexual Homicide of the Elderly: A Review of Patterns, Mark Safarik, John Jarvis and J. Amber Scherer 10. Stranger Sexual Homicide, Paul V. Greenall 11. A Cross-National Study of Sexual Murderers in France and Canada, Jonathan James, Jean Proulx and Patrick Lussier 12. Recent Research on Sexual Homicide in Scotland: Characteristics, Crime Scene Themes and Comparison with Nonhomicidal Sexual Aggressors, Rajan Darjee and Emily Baron 13. Perpetrators of Sexual Homicide in Germany: Medical, Psychiatric, and Psychological Characteristics, Andreas Hill, Wolfgang Berner and Peer Briken 14. Sexual Murder in South Africa, Gérard Labuschagne Section 2: Sexual Sadism. Coordinator: Andreas Mokros 15. Sexual Sadism and Sexual Homicide: An Overview, Andreas Mokros 16. The Aetiology of Forensic Sexual Sadism: From Experiential Perturbations to Symptomatology, Carrie A. Robertson, Franklyn J. Graham, Sonja Krstic and Raymond
