An examination of the relationship between childhood abuse, anger and violent behavior among a sample of sex offenders

Ramirez, Stephanie; Jeglic, Elizabeth L.; Calkins, Cynthia

doi:10.1186/s40352-015-0025-3

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“…42 Interestingly, the offenders reported experiencing high anger and hostility, both of which are cognitive and affective subtraits of the multidimensional concept of aggression measured on AQ. 43 The pattern has been confirmed in previous study where anger and hostility were commonly reported as one of the few problematic psychosocial features common to sexual offenders, pedophilic offenders, exhibitionists, and offenders with multiple paraphilias. 44 In fact, hostility often becomes the key parameter that differentiates the group of sexual offenders from nonsexual offenders.…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Aggression, Empathy, and Psychopathology in Adult Males Accused of Rape

Satapathy

Choudhary

Behera

et al. 2022

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Background: Investigating the underlying psychosocial factors is a cornerstone of planning need-based intervention for adult males accused of rape. Unresolved debates on its etiology, mediation, or interaction among causal psychosocial variables fuel curiosity to scrutinize it further. Hence, we studied potential influence of and relation between adverse childhood experiences, aggression, empathy, and psychopathology in adult males accused of rape in India and investigated the risk factors for the same. Methods: With a correlational research design, 40 literate and consenting adult males medically confirmed for rape were recruited using convenient sampling. The assessment was done on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Aggression Questionnaire, Symptom Checklist-90, and Interpersonal Reactivity Index. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s product–moment correlation, and stepwise linear regression analysis were calculated. Results: Approximately 75% of the participants experienced at least one category of Adverse Childhood Experiences. Scores above cut-off points were obtained on anger, hostility, fantasy, and personal distress. Significant correlations were obtained between adverse childhood experiences and psychopathology; between hostility and psychopathology, perspective taking, and personal distress; and in case of indirect aggression, with perspective taking and empathetic concerns. Regression analysis revealed that an increase in Symptom Checklist-90 global scores increases hostility and that lower personal distress predicts higher scores on hostility on Aggression Questionnaire. Conclusions: Adverse childhood experiences, aggression, and psychopathology play a critical role and, therefore, should be included as core components of the prevention of rape or relapse prevention programs at the community level.

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Adverse Childhood Experiences, Aggression, Empathy, and Psychopathology in Adult Males Accused of Rape

Satapathy

Choudhary

Behera

et al. 2022

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…First, substantial evidence from meta-analyses and literature reviews indicates that childhood abuse and neglect increased significantly the risk of developing (in general) negative emotion dysregulation (Dvir et al ., 2014; Infurna et al ., 2016). Although this seems to be particularly the case for anxiety/depressive mood dysregulation (Dvir et al ., 2014; Infurna et al ., 2016), childhood abuse also appears to impact significantly the course of anger dysregulation (Kolla et al ., 2013; Liu et al ., 2013; Gardner et al ., 2014; Iverson et al ., 2014; Ramirez et al ., 2015). Second, several findings suggest that impulsivity is a core feature of negative emotion psychopathologies (Links et al ., 1999; Sebastian et al ., 2013; Berg et al ., 2015).…”

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Developmental joint trajectories of anxiety-depressive trait and trait-aggression: implications for co-occurrence of internalizing and externalizing problems

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BackgroundIn youth, anxiety-depressive traits (ADT) and trait-aggression (TA) are important risk factors of exhibiting maladaptive behaviors in adulthood (i.e. violence and substance use). However, the developmental co-occurrence of these traits in youth remains unknown. We thus sought to investigate the developmental trajectories of ADT and TA within a data-driven approach. The aim was two-fold: (i) to examine the developmental trajectories of ADT and TA in youth from ages 10 to 16, and (ii) to investigate both childhood predictors and problematic outcomes of the identified joint trajectories.MethodThe sample comprised 1354 children provided from the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) Consortium. Group-based trajectory modeling was first employed to identify individual trajectory models of ADT and TA independently (from ages 10 to 16). Then, joint trajectory models were built on the found trajectories. Last, logistic regressions were used to evaluate the childhood characteristics and negative outcomes of the joint trajectory groups.ResultsOur results showed five trajectory groups with varying levels of ADT and TA. A significant co-occurrence between ADT and TA was found in three of the trajectory groups. Notably, higher levels of childhood psychopathology and more severe/frequent childhood abuse were found in the groups with moderate to high ADT and high TA. The groups with higher ADT and high TA were also more likely to exhibit violence and substance use.ConclusionsThis study exposes the importance of assessing ADT and TA simultaneously and early in childhood to prevent and manage the risk of problematic behaviors in adolescence.

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“…Moreover, childhood sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and observing domestic violence during childhood were associated with greater arrests for sex crimes. Additional associations have been reported linking ACEs to increased violence and weapons use among sex offenders (Ramirez et al, 2015), to increased maladaptive cognitive schemas (Chakhssi et al, 2013), and to diverse forms of serious sexual offending (Cale et al, 2014;Connolly and Woollons, 2008;DeLisi et al, 2014).…”

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Adverse childhood experiences, paraphilias, and serious criminal violence among federal sex offenders

Drury¹,

Heinrichs²,

Elbert³

et al. 2017

JCP

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Purpose Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a broad conceptual framework in the social sciences that have only recently been studied within criminology. The purpose of this paper is to utilize this framework by applying it to one of the most potentially dangerous forensic populations. Design/methodology/approach Archival data from 225 federal sex offenders was used to perform descriptive, correlational, and negative binomial regression models. Findings There was substantial evidence of ACEs including father abandonment/neglect (36 percent), physical abuse (nearly 28 percent), verbal/emotional abuse (more than 24 percent), and sexual abuse (approximately 27 percent). The mean age of sexual victimization was 7.6 years with the youngest age of victimization occurring at the age of 3. Offenders averaged nearly five paraphilias, the most common were pedophilia (57 percent), pornography addiction (43 percent), paraphilia not otherwise specified (35 percent), exhibitionism (26 percent), and voyeurism (21 percent). The offenders averaged 4.7 paraphilias and the range was substantial (0 to 19). Negative binomial regression models indicated that sexual sadism was positively and pornography addiction was negatively associated with serious criminal violence. Offenders with early age of arrest onset and more total arrest charges were more likely to perpetrate kidnaping, rape, and murder. Originality/value ACEs are common in the life history of federal sex offenders, but have differential associations with the most serious forms of crime.

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An examination of the relationship between childhood abuse, anger and violent behavior among a sample of sex offenders

Cited by 12 publications

References 75 publications

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Aggression, Empathy, and Psychopathology in Adult Males Accused of Rape

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Aggression, Empathy, and Psychopathology in Adult Males Accused of Rape

Developmental joint trajectories of anxiety-depressive trait and trait-aggression: implications for co-occurrence of internalizing and externalizing problems

Adverse childhood experiences, paraphilias, and serious criminal violence among federal sex offenders

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