2007/07/17 by Éric Beauregard, Maryann Rachel Stone, Jean Proulx +1 · 4 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Medicine · #Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending #Child Abuse and Trauma #Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis #Commit #Psychology #Pornography #Sexual abuse #Poison control #Homicide #Injury prevention #Criminology #Medical emergency #Medicine
paper · doi:10.1177/0306624x07303907
openalex publication_date 2007/07/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The amount of empirical research on men who commit sexual murders is scarce, and no distinction has been made between those who have victimized adults and those who have victimized children. Therefore, to better understand specifically sexual murderers of children (n = 11), comparisons were performed with a group of sexual murderers of adult women (n = 66) on developmental, precrime, crime, and postcrime factors. It appears that sexual murderers of children are more often victims of sexual abuse during childhood and present more often deviant sexual fantasies as compared to sexual murderers of women. The results show also that sexual murderers of children more often use pornography prior to crime, have contact with the victim prior to crime, and commit a crime more often characterized by premeditation, strangulation, the hiding of the body, and its dismemberment than the sexual murderers of women.