Compulsive Gynocide and Assaults (From Sex Murder and Sex Aggression: Phenomenology, Psychopathology, Psychodynamics and Prognosis, P 51-94, 1989, Eugene Revitch and Louis B Schlesginer -- See NCJ-118982)

• NCJ Number: 118985
• Author(s): E Revitch; L B Schlesinger
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 44 pages
• Sale Source: Charles C. Thomas
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Compulsive offenses result from the offender's extreme internal pressures to commit the crime and include physical and sexual assaults and murders of females.

Abstract

Sometime's the offender's struggle against the impulse may induce a condition of extreme tension that includes outward manifestations like sweating and headaches. Newspaper reports of violence and violence in movies and television shows have sometimes stimulated compulsive offenders to commit murders and other forms of violence. Other forms of compulsive violence include corporate murder, committed by pairs of offenders; compulsive serial killings; multiple sex offenses against children; cannibalism and vampirism; necrophilia; and strangulation of women. In addition, some cases of breaking and entering and purse snatching have underlying sexual meanings rather than being common crimes committed for gain. Descriptions of nine cases of sexually motivated compulsive gynocide and sexual aggression are detailed.