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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sexual Murder Catathymic And Compulsive Homicides 2nd Edition 2021 by Schlesinger L B
Sexual
Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the author’s
45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated homicide. Sexual
murders are generally of two types — catathymic and compulsive. Catathymic
homicides are caused by a breakthrough of underlying sexual conflicts. They can
be unplanned, explosive (acute) attacks or planned murders stemming from a
chronic obsession with, or disturbed attachment to, the victim. In compulsive
homicides, a fusion of sex and aggression results in a powerful internal drive
which pushes the offender to seek out victims to kill — and the killing itself
is sexually gratifying. These murders also may be planned or unplanned. In
compulsive homicides that are unplanned, the urge breaks through and disrupts
the offender’s controls when a victim of opportunity crosses his path. The
compulsive offender who plans his crimes often eludes law enforcement, and as a
result he can have multiple (serial) victims over extended periods of time.
Both forms of sexual murder — the catathymic and the compulsive — are presented
in this volume from a clinical-descriptive perspective encompassing case
studies with analysis. Recent advances in empirical research in sexual
murder—including findings from the joint research project between John Jay
College of Criminal Justice and the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit in
Quantico—has published many important studies. These include such topics as
necrophilia, foreign object insertions in sexual homicide, ritual and signature
and temporal patterns in serial sexual homicide, mass murder, crime scene
staging in homicide, and undoing (symbolic reversal) at homicide scenes. All
such research will be included and incorporate into this fully updated Second
Edition, including approximately fifty new clinical case studies.
1
Understanding Sexual Murder: Problems and Approaches
2
Forensic Assessment: Evaluation of the Sexual Murder
3 The
Place of Sexual Murder in the Classification of Crime
4
Catathymia and Catathymic Crisis: Contributions of Hans W. Maier and Fredric
Wertham
5
Acute Catathymic Homicides
6
Chronic Catathymic Homicides
7
Compulsive Homicides in Historical Context
8
Planned Compulsive Homicides
9
Unplanned Compulsive Homicides
10
Prediction and Disposition
Louis
B. Schlesinger, Ph.D., is
Professor of Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City
University of New York, a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology of the American
Board of Professional Psychology, and a Distinguished Practitioner of the
National Academies of Practice. He served as president of the New Jersey
Psychological Association in 1989 and as a member of the Council of
Representatives of the American Psychological Association from 1991 to 1994.
Dr. Schlesinger is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and was
the 1990 recipient of the New Jersey Psychological Association’s Psychologist
of the Year Award, and Distinguished Researcher Award in 2014, as well as a
recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Karl F. Heiser
Presidential Award (1993). He was appointed by the Governor of New Jersey and
the commissioner of corrections to be a member (and later served as chair) of
the Special Classification Review Board at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment
Center (1980–1987), the state’s forensic facility; he was also appointed (2001)
by the president of the New Jersey State Senate and acting Governor to serve as
a member of a Senate task force that rewrote Megan’s Law. Dr. Schlesinger is
co-principal investigator of a joint research project between John Jay College
and the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit at Quantico, studying various types of
violent crime including sexual and serial murder, rape, bias homicide, suicide-by-cop,
and other extraordinary criminal behaviors. He has testified in numerous
forensic cases and has published many articles, chapters, and eight other books
on the topics of homicide, sexual homicide, and criminal psychopathology.