Estimating the Size of the Sexual Aggressor Population

Bouchard, Martin; Lussier, Patrick

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“…It is possible that some of these offenders had committed additional crimes for which they were never charged and/or convicted, which provided us with only a partial picture of their criminal career. The dark figure of crime—the discrepancy between official arrest history and self-reported offending—is particularly large in studies of offenders who have committed sexually based offenses (Ahlmeyer, Heil, McKee, & English, 2000; Bouchard & Lussier, 2015; Bourke et al, 2015; Buschman et al, 2010; DeLisi et al, 2016; Mathesius & Lussier, 2014). Finally, it is important to point out that the classification of offender type (i.e., NHSO, violent NHSO, and SHO) was solely based on the outcome of the crime, not the original intention of the offender.…”

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Sexual Murderers: Sex Offender, Murderer, or Both?

2017

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Sexual murderers perpetrate homicide and rape/sexual abuse, but it is unclear whether they should primarily be considered homicide offenders, sexual offenders, or both. Most studies have merged together different types of non-homicidal sex offenders (NHSOs), neglecting to consider the potential differences between the nonviolent and violent sex offenders. Here, we suggest it is important to isolate those violent sex offenders who inflict severe physical injuries that could potentially lead to a lethal outcome. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to compare different measures of the criminal career on three groups of sex offenders: NHSOs, violent NHSOs, and sexual homicide offenders (SHOs) using data from 616 incarcerated male sex offenders in a Federal penitentiary in Canada. Interestingly, the group of sex offenders with the worst criminal career profile was not the SHOs, but the violent NHSOs. Violent NHSOs had the greatest number of prior convictions and the most varied and versatile criminal career. Therefore, we suggest that based on their criminal career, SHOs should be considered more as murderers than sex offenders. However, to fully answer this question, future studies should include a group of non-sexual homicide offenders.

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Sexual Murderers: Sex Offender, Murderer, or Both?

2017

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“…Little is currently known about unsolved offenses in sexual offending research (Bouchard & Lussier, 2011), particularly in relation to crime events and the circumstances under which they occur. However, it has been argued that some offenders are better at avoiding detection than others for both general and sexual crimes (Beauregard & Bouchard, 2010), for example, studies suggest that offenders who are violent, frequent drug users and/or with a history of unemployment or job instability are less successful at avoiding detection (e.g., Kazemian & Le Blanc, 2007).…”

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“…It is, therefore, of value to also examine unsolved offenses based on perspectives that focus on the immediate environment and the crime event. Except for a few studies, this has been a largely neglected area in sexual offending (Balemba, Beauregard, & Martineau, 2014; Beauregard & Martineau, 2014, 2016; Bouchard & Lussier, 2011), and little is known about the crime event processes, predictors, and contexts of unsolved sexual offenses. It is possible that offenders who remain uncaught operate differently or under different contexts.…”

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Predictors and Contexts of Unsolved and Solved Sexual Offenses

Chiu

Leclerc

2019

Crime & Delinquency

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Drawing from perspectives emphasizing environmental crime event components, this study identifies the predictors and contexts of unsolved and solved sexual offenses against women by strangers. Police data were obtained from 542 cases in Queensland. Hierarchical logistical regression was adopted to analyze variables relating to situational, contextual, and offender–victim interaction elements. Common contexts were examined using conjunctive analysis. Cases were significantly likely to remain unsolved if the offender used minimal force, or if the victim was walking outside at the time of initial contact. Conversely, solved cases were significantly associated with offender prior consumption of alcohol/drugs, bystander presence, and vehicle use. Crimes with higher criminal “effectiveness” and lower levels of victim interaction tended to be associated with unsolved sexual offenses.

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“…This second generation of studies focused on self-reported data to measure sexual aggression toward women because these incidents are largely under-reported by police data (e.g., Bryden & Lengnick, 1997;Bouchard & Lussier, 2015;Koss, 1993b;Lussier & Cale, 2013). In other words, these studies stressed that the prevalence of sexual aggression was much higher than official data suggested (e.g., Koss et al, 1987).…”

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Understanding the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women: Four generations of research and theorizing

Lussier

Cale

2016

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women. For the most part, the first three generations of research and theorizing provided an inherently static view of the propensity among males to commit a sexual aggression, providing little information about the developmental processes involved in the origins and course of sexually aggressive behavior. This article provides a review of contemporary explanations of sexual aggression against women and an examination of the underlying developmental issues that these models imply. Given the emergence of longitudinal research on sexual aggression, these issues are then contrasted and compared with the relatively nascent body of knowledge about the origins and the development of sexual aggression over the life course. More specifically, in recent years a fourth generation of research and theorizing concerned by the developmental and life course factors conducive to rape and sexual aggression has emerged. This fourth generation proposes a more dynamic etiological framework to understand the origins and the development of sexually aggressive behaviors that is directed by men toward women. Emerging research from this generation highlight unresolved issues about, among other things, the understanding of the continuity and discontinuity of rape and sexual aggression over time as well as the developmental pathways leading to rape and sexual aggression.

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Estimating the Size of the Sexual Aggressor Population

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Sexual Murderers: Sex Offender, Murderer, or Both?

Sexual Murderers: Sex Offender, Murderer, or Both?

Predictors and Contexts of Unsolved and Solved Sexual Offenses

Understanding the origins and the development of rape and sexual aggression against women: Four generations of research and theorizing

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