Sex Crime Exam #2

coprophilia

the consumption of feces

vampirism

sexual gratification form the drinking of blood

mysoped

sexual pleasure from committing acts of extreme violence on children

pornophlia

excessive or compulsive interest in pornography

scatolophilia

sexual gratification from making obscene telephone calls

saliromania

sexual gratification received form the destruction or defilement of nude statues or paintings of women

scoptophilia

arousal from looking at sexually stimulating scenes

fetishism

in animate object to which one attaches sexual connotations

pogophilia

a person with a deep affinity for beards

zoosadism

sexual pleasure derived from cruelty to animals

beastiality

sexual activity with an animal

transvestophilia

arousal from cross-dressing

coprophagy

the consumption of feces

voyeurism

sexual interest in or practice of watching other people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions

nymphomania

excessive, uncontrollable sexual desire in women

pyromania

eroticized igniting of fires

lust murder

type of killing where the perpetrator's primary motivation is to achieve sexual gratification from the violence, torture, and/or killing of a victim

hebephilia

sexual attraction (of a man) to teenage boys

necrophilia

sex with corpses

mysophilia

arousal from filth, soiled clothing, or foul, decaying odors

partialism

sexual interest with an exclusive focus on a specific, non-genital part of the human body for sexual arousal

pedophilia

sex with minors

kleptophilia

sexual arousal from stealing

pederasty

anal sex

zooeroticism

sexual gratification achieved with animals by stroking, petting, or kissing, but without sexual intercourse

depilation

a person is aroused by having their head hair cut or shaved, by cutting the hair of another, by watching someone else get a haircut, or by seeing someone with a shaved head or very short hair

triolism

sexual gratification associated with seeing oneself or others in sexual scenes

anthropophagy

rape with cannibalism

masochism

ability to transfer emotions caused by pain to erotic feelings

pygmalionism

sexual attraction to an object of one's own creation

brachioproctism

insertion of the arm into the rectum of another person for sexual pleasure

infibulation

torture of one’s own genitals

bondage

the state of being physically or metaphorically restrained, enslaved, or subjected to control, often involving physical ties like ropes or chains for sexual pleasure

flagellationism

sexual arousal from striking a person with an object

pedophilia

sex with minors

swinging

group sex or wife swapping

gerontophilia

sexual attraction to a partner who belongs to an older generation

exhibitionism

the deliberate exposure of the body in inappropriate situations to nonconsenting people for sexual arousal

frottage

rubbing one’s body against partner or object for arousal

sexhibitionism

enjoyment from being watched during sex

incest

sexual relations between persons who are too closely related by blood to marry

erotic hanging

intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal

satyriasis

(in a man) uncontrollable desire for sex

infantilism

dressing as a young child for sex play

erotomania

a compulsive interest in sexual matters

rape

nonconsensual sex involving coercion, empowerment, or anger

urophilia

arousal from urine

gary ridgway

“The Green River Killer”

• killed from 1982 to 2001, age 33

• killed 48 prostitutes that were on his father’s bus route

• confessed to the murders to avoid the death penalty

• caught through DNA evidence

• had an IQ of 86, but most prolific killer in the US

• strangled victims from behind

Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy

“Sunset Strip Killers”

• June to August 1980, age 32 - California

• Shot 6 prostitutes in his van

• Took a head home

• She had killed someone on her own

• Liked to shoot sex workers as they gave him oral sex

• Turned herself and partner into the police

• Folie a Deux

Danny Rolling

“Gainesville Ripper”

• 1990 - Florida

• Killed 5 college students

• Posed victims

  • Head on shelf

  • Washed them

• Recorded his slayings by singing about them

  • Someone heard him and reported him

Robert Yates

• 1975 to 1998, age 23 - Spokane, Washington

• Killed 16 prostitutes

• Had a good background with a family

• Buried a victim outside his bedroom window

  • Shot them

• Arrested when spotted with a prostitute - DNA

• True necrophile

Carroll Eddie Cole

• Sought out women whom he perceived to be cheating on their husbands

• Cannibalized some of the women

  • Strangled and bludgeoned

• Moved to Dallas where he killed 3 more (1980) and confessed to more

• Detectives were about to release him when he willingly confessed

Bobby Joe Long

• 1984, age 31 - Florida

• 9 prostitutes

• Hx of multiple head injuried

• Posed victims

• Released a victim who gave info to police

  • 17 yr old girl

  • Kept in his home for 3 days

  • Raped and abused

  • Tried to be personal

  • Left hair evidence all over his basement

• Matched red carpet fibers to ones found on victims clothes

George Russel

• 1990, age 32 - Seattle, Washington

• Killed 3 women

• Troubled youth - police informant

• Object insertion and posed victims

• Killed women when they left “yuppie bars”

• Hated mother and step-mother

  • linked to victims

Dennis Rader

“BTK Killer”

• 1974 to 2005, age 29, Kansas City

• Worked for ADT and code enforcement officer

• Would cut victims phone lines and hide in house

• Would never pentrate them

  • Would be adultery which is a sin

  • Would strip and torture them instead

• Married with children

• Caught bc he sent a computer disk to the police so they traced the IP address

John Wayne Gacy

“Killer Clown”

• 1974 to 1978, age 30 - Des Plains, Illinois

• Conned men with job openings through his contractor job

• Buried 23 boys in his crawlspace

  • Then under a concrete patio

  • Some in shed

  • Rest in the river

• Lure them with job openings

  • Handcuff trick

  • Raped them with dildos

  • Used nailed paddles on them

• Linked to last victim - Steven Peis

  • Mother alerted police of missing son

  • Invited police in for a drink

  • Officer smelled the decomposition of a body when the heat turned on while in the bathroom

Jerome Brudos

• 1969, age 29 - Oregon

• Killed 5 women for their high heeled shoes

• Shoe fetish since age 5

• Made teens undress in front of him

• Cut off the foot of one woman, placed it in freezer

  • Took 100s of photos with different shoes on the foot

  • Dumped the women’s body in the river

• Made wife clean house naked wearing high heeled shoes

  • Podophilia

  • Triolism

• Necrophile

• Hung last victim in the garage on a hook like a deer

  • Gutted her

  • Took lots of pictures

Charles Albright

• 1990 to 1991, age 57 - Dallas, TX

• Killed 3

• Oculophilia

• Extracted etes from 3 victims (prostitutes)

  • Would have sex with them, shoot them, and remove eyes

• Mother taught him taxidermy

• Extremely smart

• Connected to last victim

  • Squirrel tail hair in victim

  • Same type found on the victims coat and matched through a DNA database to confirm

What sexual behavior does it mean when one believes is right for him or herself?

sexual autonomy

Meghan’s Law tiers

Tier 1 (low): involves less serious offenses and results in minimal notification (law enforcement only)

Tier 2 (moderate): more serious offenses than one and usually triggers notification to law enforcement and certain community organizations

Tier 3 (high): leads to the broadest community notification, including public notification

obstacles to the treatment of sex offenders

societal, political, criminal justice system, and financial

societal obstacles

public attitudes and stigma surrounding sex offenders

political obstacles

legislative and policy decisions that emphasize punitive measures over rehabilitation

criminal justice system obstacles

limited access to quality treatment in prisons and under supervision

financial obstacles

budgetary constraints, lack of funding fro specialized services, and competition for scarce mental health resources

tiers of sex offenders

tier 1 (low): indecent exposure, possession of certain illegal sexual materials, some statutory or non-coercive cases

tier 2 (moderate): sex offenses against minors, distribution of abusive material, crimes involving coercion

tier 3 (high): rape, sexual assault with force, repeated offenses, crimes involving kidnapping or violence

Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis

personality and a therapeutic approach based on the idea that human behavior is driven by unconscious forces called the id, ego, and superego

sueprego

internalized moral conscience, incorporating societal rules, guilt, and ideals

ego

rational decision-making part that operates in reality and balances the id’s demands

id

present at birth, driven by instinctual urges, pleasure-seeking, and immediate gratification

conscious

everything you are actively aware of at a given moment

preconscious

information that is not currently in awareness but can be easily brought into consciousness when needed

unconscious

largest and most influential level that contains repressed memories, hidden fears, unacceptable desires, instinctual drives

positive reinforcement

(operant)

offender experiences pleasurable physiological or psychological arousal during deviant sexual behavior

negative reinforcement

(operant)

offending temporarily reduces negative emotions (stress, loneliness, anger, or anxiety) so behavior is reduced because ti removes an unpleasant feeling

intermittent reinforcement

(operant)

opportunities for deviant sexual behavior are sporadic but rewarding, this creates a powerful pattern that is very resistant to extinction

lack o fpunishment/consequences

(operant)

if early acts go undetected or unpunished, the offender learns that such behavior carries little cost

sexual arousal with non sexual or inappropriate stimuli

(classical)

person experiences sexual arousal while exposed to children, violence, coercion, objects or situations, these become conditioned sexual triggers

conditioning through fantasy

(classical)

repeated deviant fantasies paired with arousal and orgasm strengthen the association

conditioning through trauma or early experiences

(classical)

early abuse or traumatic sexual experiences can create confusing or inappropriate sexual associations, whcih become conditioned and persist into adulthood

cue-based triggers

(classical)

formerly neutral cue (situation, age group, clothing type, setting) may become a sexualized trigger because it was repeatedly paired with sexual arousal

Little Albert Experiment

• researched by Watson and Rayner

• to show that fear can be learned (conditioned), not just instinctive

• 9 month old shown various animals and objects, which he shown no fear

• white rat was given to play with and every time he touched it, a steel bar with a hammer was struck (unconditioned stimulus)

• loud noise made kid cry and show fear (unconditioned response)

• learned to cry and fear the white rat without any noise being made

• generalized any animal or object that was white and furry

Jessica Lunsford

• 9 yr old from FL was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in 2005 by a convicted sex offender who had failed to register his address

increased penalties for sex crimes against child: mandatory min 25 yrs to life, electronic monitoring, and stricter registration and residency restrictions

ensures dangerous offenders are tracked and unable to live near schools or playgrounds

Meghan Kanka

• 7 yr old from NJ that was raped and murdered in 1994 by a twice convicted sex offender who lived across the street unknown to her family

law requires public notification of sex offenders living in a community and classified based on risk to determine how much info is made public

Adam Walsh

• 6 yr old was abducted at a Sears department in 1981 and murdered

law created a national sex offender registry known as SORNA to help standardized registration requirements across states, classified offenders into three tiers, and imposed federal penalties for failing to register so it helps to unify sex offender tracking nationwide

True or False: Sexual predators that prefer girls ages 15 to 18 will rarely have attraction ot another age group.

TRUE

Ward and Seigert pathway of child abuse

no single cause of child sexual abuse and that offenders following different developmental pathways toward abusing, depending on what psychological systems are impaired

• intimacy deficits

• distorted sexual scripts

• emotional dysregulation

• antisocial cognition

intimacy deficits pathway

offenders have difficulty forming healthy, adult relationships, loneliness and emotional isolation, and poor social and intimacy skills

distorted sexual scripts pathway

offender had learned incorrect or deviant beliefs about sex, sexual scripts involving children, and a history of poor sexual education or unusual ealry sexual experiences

emotional dysregulation pathway

offender struggles to regulate emotions (anger, stress, sadness, anxiety) and cope with negative moods

antisocial cognition pahway

offender has general antisocial attitudes, impulsivity, disregard for laws and social norms, and pattern of rule-breaking behavior

John Geoghan

a catholic priest from Boston who became known as one of the most notorious serial child molesters within the US clergy abuse scandal

• over 100 children who were prepubescent/early adolescent boys from vulnerable families or neighborhoods

• groomed and manipulated by befriending families, taking boys on outings, gained unsupervised access through church programs, and used his position of trust to avoid suspicion

• defrocked in 1998, convicted of indecent assault and battery on a child in 2002, received a 9-10 year sentence

solo sex rings

involves one adult offender who sexually abuses multiple child victims

• adult is central organizer and perpetrator

• children don’t know about other’s involvement

• no exchange of images or collaboration with other perpetrators

transitions sex rings

intermediate type in which multiple children and sometimes multiple adults are involved

• may be come exchange of victims, images, or services among offenders

• money or other incentives might change hands in connection with the exploitation

syndicated sex rings

highly organized group of offenders who work together in a networked or coordinated way

• involve multiple adults and multiple child victims

• often exchange or distribute child sexual abuse material, victims, or sexual services among each other

Sex Crimes Against Children Prevention Act of (1995)

aimed at strengthening penalties for child sexual exploitation

Communications Decent Act of 1996

included provisions to restrict online child pornography and related content

Child Online Protection Act (1998)

aimed to protect children online; portions concerned pornographic material

Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act (1998)

expanded criminal provisions related to child sexual exploitation

PROTECT Act of 2003

consolidated and strengthened federal child-pornography laws; includes prohibitions on computer-generated depictions and harsher penalties