Sexual victimization occurs in all ages, sexes, ethnicities, educational fields, and socioeconomic groups. Sexual offending covers a range of criminal sexual acts, including sexual assaults of older adolescents or adults, sexual contact with children under the legally defined age of each jurisdiction, noncontact sexual offenses involving exhibitionism or voyeurism (e.g., this could include online offending […]
On February 1, 2012, Israel Keyes, 34, decided that the Common Grounds, espresso coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska would be his target. He had already purchased tickets to board a cruise ship from New Orleans to Mexico the very next morning. Keyes waited in his car fairly close to the coffee stand, listening to a
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Gary Ridgway was the most prolific serial in the history of the United States. His 19-year reign of terror left the area surrounding Seattle littered with corpses. All the girls were young. A lot of them grew up in abusive homes and they were running away, as a result of that, they were prostitutes. In
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Battered woman syndrome is considered a type of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychologist Lenore Walker, EdD, coined the term in her groundbreaking 1979 book, The Battered Woman. Battered woman’s syndrome is the psychological effects of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse inflicted by intimate partner. Men are also abused by their partners, and the term “battered
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Sadism is derivation of pleasure through cruelty and inflicting pain, humiliation, and other forms of suffering on individuals (American Psychological Association). Sadism can be physical and/or sexual, but it can also be inflicted verbally and via emotional manipulation and humiliation. The satisfaction of the sadist may result not from inflicting actual physical pain but rather
Would you tell us what the term paraphilia means and what is a paraphilia? Dr. Park Dietz: ‘’The term paraphilia comes from Greek roots and was reintroduced in 1980 as a means of getting away from the term sexual deviation that had been used before that time, and the Greek Roots refer to the idea
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