High-risk sexual offenders: An examination of sexual fantasy, sexual paraphilia, psychopathy, and offence characteristics

Woodworth, Michael; Freimuth, Tabatha; Hutton, E. L.; Carpenter, Tara Louise; Agar, Ava D.; Logan, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2013.01.007

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“…In other words, violence would become self-rewarding and consequently self-perpetuating. Indeed, psychopathy has been associated with the derivation of pleasure from violence and the use of gratuitous violence in multiple samples [52–54, 154]. Foulkes et al [155] reported positive correlations between all facets of psychopathy and enjoyment of callous treatment of others in two diverse samples.…”

Section: Development Of Psychopathic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Severe and Chronic Violence Among Youth: The Role of Psychopathic Traits and Reward Processing

Reidy¹,

Krusemark

Kosson

et al. 2017

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Psychopathic traits are a manifestation of a personality pathology that comprises a core affective-interpersonal dysfunction (callous-unemotional traits) and an impulsive-antisocial behavioral component. Of particular importance, psychopathic traits are associated with the perpetration of some of the most severe acts of violence, and they appear to indicate a subset of youth at risk for earlier onset, greater frequency, and persistence of violent offending. Although these youth represent a minority of the population, they commit a significant proportion of the violence in the general community. In our review, we highlight evidence of a unique neurobiological predisposition that underlies the core affective deficits and describe contemporary accounts for the developmental processes leading to the antisocial behavior associated with psychopathy. Current evidence suggests that, for this subset of youth, the structure and function of neural circuitry supporting emotion processing, reward learning, decision making, and the development of emotion related to empathy may be crucial to understanding why they are at risk for violence. In particular, a reward dominant pattern of neurobehavioral conditioning may explain how these youth progress to some of the most severe and persistent forms of violence. However, this pattern of conditioning may also be essential to the primary prevention of such deleterious behavior. We suspect that effective strategies to prevent such violence may ultimately be informed by understanding these affective and motivational mechanisms.

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Section: Development Of Psychopathic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Severe and Chronic Violence Among Youth: The Role of Psychopathic Traits and Reward Processing

Reidy¹,

Krusemark

Kosson

et al. 2017

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…Although associated with various types of sexual offending, some studies have found weak relationships between psychopathy and overall sexual offending (Hare et al, 2000;Knight and Guay, 2006). This may in part be because rates (and levels) of psychopathy differ between groups of sex offenders (Firestone et al, 2000;Porter et al, 2000Porter et al, , 2003Woodworth et al, 2013), with rates tending to be higher in rapists (ranging between 25% and 45%; Porter et al, 2000;Woodworth et al, 2013), especially sadistic rapists (Barbaree et al, 1994;Hare et al, 1999) and sexual homicide offenders (up to 97%; Firestone et al, 1998). Porter and colleagues (2000) suggested that a significant proportion of sexual offender heterogeneity (e.g., criminal diversity, degree of empathy, impulsivity, and victim types) may be related to psychopathic traits.…”

Section: Sexual Offendingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychopathy and criminal behaviour: a psychosocial research perspective

Dhingra

Boduszek

2013

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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Purpose -This paper aims to provide a critical review of the psychopathy literature, with a particular focus on recent research examining the relationship between psychopathy and various forms of criminal behaviour.Design/methodology/approach -The authors provide an overview of the studies conducted to date. To identify relevant publications for inclusion in this review, literature searches were completed using Web of Science, Scopus, PsychINFO, and PubMed.Findings -Substantial empirical research exists to suggest that psychopathy is a robust predictor of criminal behaviour and recidivism. Furthermore, considerable support for the assertion that the violence perpetrated by psychopathic offenders is more instrumental than the violence committed by other offenders was found. In addition, some research suggests that the greater use of instrumental violence among psychopathic offenders may be due to the Interpersonal-Affective traits of psychopathy, and not the Impulsive-Antisocial traits.Originality/value -The current paper is the first to provide an in-depth review of the literature examining the association between psychopathy and criminal offending with a particular focus on violent and homicidal behaviour.

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“…For example, a number of studies have demonstrated a relationship between deviant sexual fantasies and negative emotional/affective states (Looman, 1995;McKibben, Proulx, & Lusignan, 1994;Proulx, McKibben, & Lusignan, 1996), personality traits (Curnoe & Langevin, 2002;Williams, Cooper, Howell, Yuille, & Paulhus, 2009), behavior (MacCulloch et al 1983Woodworth, Freimuth, Hutton, Carpenter, Agar, & Logan, 2013) and cognition Zurbriggen & Yost, 2004). Thus, rather than being restricted to sexual arousal, this research suggests that deviant sexual fantasy is a much more multifaceted phenomenon (Bartels & Gannon, 2011).…”

Section: Recent Developmentsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Theories of Deviant Sexual Fantasy

Bartels

Beech

2016

The Wiley Handbook on the Theories, Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offending

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Deviant sexual fantasies have long been regarded as an important factor in sexual offending, with research showing that they serve multiple functions (e.g., inducing arousal, planning behavior) and interrelate with numerous other factors (e.g., emotional states, personality).However, within this chapter, an evaluation of the existing theoretical accounts is provded, which indicates that the construct is not well understood or conceptualized. As a result, the

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High-risk sexual offenders: An examination of sexual fantasy, sexual paraphilia, psychopathy, and offence characteristics

Cited by 72 publications

References 66 publications

The Development of Severe and Chronic Violence Among Youth: The Role of Psychopathic Traits and Reward Processing

The Development of Severe and Chronic Violence Among Youth: The Role of Psychopathic Traits and Reward Processing

Psychopathy and criminal behaviour: a psychosocial research perspective

Theories of Deviant Sexual Fantasy

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