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- Page 5 and 6: ForewordWhen I received my doctorat
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Perhaps the most widely known conne
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to predict with accuracy (Gibbons,
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groups. Type A homicides are impuls
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ased on an analysis of the motivati
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Thus, in many instances, epilepsy,
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violence. Unfortunately, the court-
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suffering thing. I thought if elect
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cotton underwear. She changed her u
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3.4.1 Social and Environmentally St
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men, without overt disturbance or a
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anger can trigger such murders unde
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wrapped his wife’s body in a tarp
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athroom and got a green can of aero
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and made numerous stab wounds over
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15-year-old female (A) who lived ab
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put another coat of paint on and th
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y underlying conflicts that erupt w
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Catathymia andCatathymic Crisis:Con
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effects of encephalitis and various
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(p. 582). In this and similar cases
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plexes being at work” (p. 197). M
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In the 1950s the American people fa
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NeurosisPsychosisCatathymic CrisisC
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who dishonors my family. … I don
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• Stage 2: The latent complex of
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Eventually, Robert’s idea of cast
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Robert’s treating physicians who,
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to prevent a (lower) “fourth orde
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Finally, the authors found it signi
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Ruotolo’s findings corroborated t
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His offenders had unstable families
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Table 5.1 Similarities between Acut
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and looked at her and tried to have
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hated her.” Following the homicid
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Figure 5.1Drawings by offender who
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5.2.2 Displaced MatricideConflicts
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“I asked myself a thousand times
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that that’s his mom. They have no
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men, drank to excess and spent chil
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5.2.3 Sexual MatricideMost acute ca
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5.3 Differential DiagnosisAcute cat
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skin picking as an example. But, ra
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Chronic CatathymicHomicides6The chr
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homicides are unplanned, while the
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Raskolnikov’s belief — that by
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e attacked [by the Americans during
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offenders. Such opposite notions ar
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6.3 The Predominance of DepressionO
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and eventually to a sudden acting-o
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• Card 3BM. “We have a person h
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Around the 5th month of the relatio
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Figure 6.1 Drawings by an offender
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elieved that, through this decision
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DD grew up in a working-class famil
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car in neutral. She yelled for help
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she came out and said, ‘What’s
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Mullen, and Alpers (2000) found the
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Figure 6.3 Deep depression is obvio
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chosis, a necessary condition to es
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Table 7.1Differing Uses of the Term
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meanings, as we have seen. The use
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anthropos, meaning man.) There are
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a descriptive — as opposed to an
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Table 7.2 Characteristics of Contem
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He concluded that men have an inbor
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Perhaps one of the most bizarre cas
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have been sexually motivated, compu
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tendencies in his youth: “I had a
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her while she was unconscious but s
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his trial he told the judge that
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findings: such offenders “give ve
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enforcement personnel looking for a
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Table 7.4Childhood Sexual Experienc
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The men often selected victims base
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profile in shocking detail. Not onl
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years, these and other investigator
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Some investigators (Godwin and Cant
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Planned CompulsiveHomicides8Compuls
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design is for man, who then more th
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offered from different theoretical
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manual strangulation (60%), sometim
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AA denied achieving any powerful or
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• Card 3GF. “A battered woman.
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he left one of his tools there, and
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Additionally, BB had been charged w
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their breasts exposed and placing t
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On the Rorschach, CC produced many
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only to find himself suddenly impel
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plastics with legs & top tied so th
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how he slowly drowned her and sat o
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Figure 8.3 Crime scene photo of wom
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FF was raised by his mother, whom h
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uttocks; and over by the wall hung
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obtained one fingerprint, but becau
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On Card 13BM, GG said, “somebody
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Less common cases involve two male
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UnplannedCompulsiveHomicides9Sexual
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disorganized speech, as well as neg
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(Schechter and Everitt, 1996). His
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a lot of evidence was recovered, in
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9.3 Nonrecognition of the Sexual As
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underestimation because some of BB
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The next case illustrates an offend
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the bed.” EE described anger towa
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9.5 Breakthrough of Compulsion with
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on the stomach. He next burned D’
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general finding that the vast major
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9.8 Differential Diagnosis: Catathy
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would be unable to see them. He tie
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persistent rejection. The offender
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When evaluated, KK was reasonably p
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out the murder in a planned manner
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perceived “purity” of the wife
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passive, defensive. It affords a ma
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Because so many different things mu
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statistical tables on various situa
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killing and mutilating a prostitute
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violence on the basis of an analysi
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committed homicide in a 5 to 6 year
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10.1.2.1 Childhood AbuseThe prevale
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mother contributes to his crimes. T
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individuals with antisocial and con
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feathering people and of tying vict
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ecame friendly with a sadistic dog
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the (eventual) sadistic murders. An
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of sadism toward the woman wearing
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Table 10.3Notorious Sexual Murderer
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50 and 65% of their sample, as chil
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lescents. These authors described s
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Table 10.4Treatment Modalities with
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were passed to reimburse individual
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