Sexual Murder - Justicia Forense

Table 1.2Various Terms, Descriptions, and Definitions of Sexual MurderAuthor Year Term Description/DefinitionKrafft-Ebing 1886 Lust murder “The connection between lust and desireto kill” (p. 62); “The sadistic crimealone becomes the equivalent of coitus”(p. 64)De River 1958 Sadistic lustmurder“After killing the victim, the murderertortures, cuts, maims, or slashes thevictim … on parts [of the body] thatcontain strong sexual significance tohim and serves as sexual stimulation”(p. 40)Brittain 1970 Sadistic murder Offers no specific definition but providesa nine-page description of personalitytraits and characteristics of sadisticmurderers; differentiates from amurderer who kills in a sexual setting(such as one who silences a victim ofrape).Hazelwood andDouglas1980 Lust murder “Distinguished from the sadistichomicide by the involvement of amutilating attack or displacement ofthe breasts, rectum, or genitals” (p. 1)MacDonald 1986 Sex murder “A sexual factor is clearly apparent … ordeeper study will sometimes reveal thatsexual conflict underlies the act ofaggression” (p. 164)Ressler, Burgess,and Douglas1988 Sexual homicide “Murder with evidence or observationsthat indicate[s] that the murder wassexual in nature” (p. xiii).Money 1990 Erotophonophilia Murder associated with sexual sadism asdefined in DSM (p. 26)Douglas et al. 1992 Sexual homicide “Involves a sexual element (activity) asthe basis for the sequence of acts leadingto death” (p. 123)Douglas et al. 1992 Sadistic murder “The offender derives the greatestsatisfaction from the victim’s responseto torture” (p. 136)Grubin 1994 Sexual murder “The killing may also be closely boundto the sexual element of an attack …the offender’s control of his victim, andher pain and humiliation, becomelinked to his sexual arousal” (p. 624)Malmquist 1996 Lust killing “The primary goal is to kill the victim aspart of a ritualized attack … themotivation … is the enactment of sometype of fantasy that has preoccupiedhim or her for some time” (p. 295)