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Citation

Hill A, Habermann N, Berner W, Briken P. J. Personal. Disord. 2006; 20(6): 671-684.

Affiliation

Institute of Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Guilford Publications)

DOI

10.1521/pedi.2006.20.6.671

PMID

17192143

Abstract

Controversies exist about the diagnostic validity of sexual sadism and its relation to sadistic personality disorder in sex offenders. The aim of this study was to investigate which diagnostic, developmental, and criminal characteristics differentiate sexual sadistic from non-sadistic sexual homicide perpetrators. Psychiatric court reports on 166 men who had committed a sexual homicide were evaluated regarding psychiatric, sexual and criminal history. Sixty-one offenders (36.7%) with sexual sadism (SeSd) were compared with 105 (63.3%) offenders without this diagnosis (NSeSd). Besides the sexual sadistic symptoms, there were seven factors that discriminated best between the two groups (sexual masochism, sadistic personality disorder, isolation in childhood, multiple sexual homicide, previous rape, previous tendencies for similar behavior, and long duration of the homicidal act). Sexual sadism is connected with circumscribed other characteristics and has to be considered in risk assessment and treatment of sex offenders.


Language: en

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