Abstract
This is an uncontrolled, descriptive study of 30 sexually sadistic criminals. All were men, and all intentionally tortured their victims in order to arouse themselves. Their crimes often involved careful planning, the selection of strangers as victims, approaching the victim under a pretext, participation of a partner, beating victims, restraining victims and holding them captive, sexual bondage, anal rape, forced fellatio, vaginal rape, foreign object penetration, telling victims to speak particular words in a degrading manner, murder or serial killings (most often by strangulation), concealing victims’ corpses, recording offenses, and keeping personal items belonging to victims.
Footnotes
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Dr. Dietz has a consulting practice in forensic psychiatry based in Newport Beach, CA, and is a consultant to the F.B.I.’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and to the Forensic Sciences Unit of the New York State Police. Special Agent Hazelwood is an Instructor at the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, F.B.I. Academy, Quantico, VA, and a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the University of Virginia. Dr. Warren is an assistant professor in the General Medical Faculty, Division of Medical Center Social Work and Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Virginia.
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