Sexual Murder : Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides

1 Understanding Sexual Murder: Problems and Approaches 1(26) 1.1 The Problem of Definition and Terms 2(1) 1.2 Many Seemingly Sexual Murders Are Not Sexually Motivated 3(2) 1.3 Many Sexual Homicides Are Not Overtly Sexual 5(1) 1.4 Distinction between a Sexual Murder and Murder Associated with Sexual Behavior Is Often Blurred 6(1) 1.5 Absence of National Crime Statistics on Sexual Murder 7(2) 1.6 Practical Impediments to Research 9(2) 1.7 Phenomenological-Descriptive vs. Statistical Approaches 11(1) 1.8 The First Case of Murder: Forensic vs. Clinical Psychological Approaches 12(4) 1.9 Epidemiological Aspects of Homicide: Sexual Murder Must Be Understood in Context 16(3) 1.9.1 Incidence of Crime and Homicide 16(1) 1.9.2 Historical Patterns 17(1) 1.9.3 Age Patterns 18(1) 1.9.4 Additional Findings 18(1) 1.10 Victimology: Dynamics of Victim and Offender 19(4) 1.11 Comment 23(4) 2 Forensic Assessment: Evaluation of the Sexual Murder 27(46) 2.1 Background 27(9) 2.2 Psychological Testing 36(28) 2.2.1 Rorschach Test 38(3) 2.2.2 Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) 41(4) 2.2.3 Projective Drawings 45(5) 2.2.4 Bender-Gestalt 50(9) 2.2.5 Personality Inventories 59(2) 2.2.6 Intellectual, Cognitive, and Neuropsychological Assessment 61(1) 2.2.7 Neurodiagnostic and Biological Testing 62(1) 2.2.8 Narcoanalysis 63(1) 2.2.9 Hypnosis 63(1) 2.3 Deception Syndromes 64(6) 2.3.1 Malingering 65(2) 2.3.2 Pseudomalingering 67(1) 2.3.3 Ganser's Syndrome 68(1) 2.3.4 Rationalization, Justification, and Direct Lying 69(1) 2.4 Issues in the Determination of Guilt 70(3) 2.4.1 Eyewitness (and Earwitness) Identification 70(1) 2.4.2 Polygraph Findings 71(1) 2.4.3 False Confessions 71(2) 3 The Place of Sexual Murder in the Classification of Crime 73(36) 3.1 Theories of Crime 73(4) 3.1.1 Biological Theories 73(1) 3.1.2 Psychological Theories 74(2) 3.1.3 Sociological Theories 76(1) 3.2 Classification of Homicide 77(4) 3.3 Organic, Toxic, and Paranoid Homicides 81(9) 3.3.1 Organic Disorders 81(2) 3.3.2 Toxic States 83(1) 3.3.3 Paranoid Disorders and Homicide 84(6) 3.4 Motivational Spectrum in the Classification of Homicide 90(17) 3.4.1 Social and Environmentally Stimulated Homicides 91(3) 3.4.2 Situational Homicides 94(7) 3.4.3 Impulsive Offenders Who Commit Homicide 101(5) 3.4.4 Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides 106(1) 3.5 Sexual Murder in Context 107(2) 4 Catathymic and Catathymic Crisis: Contributions of Hans W. Maier and Fredric Wertham 109(20) 4.1 Hans W. Maier: The Concept of Catathymic 109(7) 4.2 Fredric Wertham and the Catathymic Crisis 116(11) 4.3 Comment 127(2) 5 Acute Catathymic Homicides 129(32) 5.1 Varying Views of Catathymic and Sudden Violence 129(8) 5.1.1 A Subtype of Episodic Dyscontrol 129(3) 5.1.2 The Role of Inadequacy 132(2) 5.1.3 The Role of Organicity 134(1) 5.1.4 "Affective" Aggression 135(1) 5.1.5 Presence of Dissociation 135(2) 5.1.6 Overcontrolled Personalities 137(1) 5.2 Revitch and Schlesinger's Catathymic Process: Acute Catathymic Homicides 137(19) 5.2.1 Sexual Inadequacy 138(8) 5.2.2 Displaced Matricide 146(8) 5.2.3 Sexual Matricide 154(2) 5.3 Differential Diagnosis 156(2) 5.4 Comment 158(3) 6 Chronic Catathymic Homicides 161(34) 6.1 Literary Illustrations of Catathymic 164(4) 6.2 Meloy's Psychodynamic Contributions 168(3) 6.3 The Predominance of Depression 171(8) 6.4 Catathymic with a Predominant Obsession 179(2) 6.5 Stalking and Catathymic Homicide 181(7) 6.6 Catathymic Mass Murder 188(4) 6.7 Comment 192(3) 7 Compulsive Homicides in Historical Context 195(38) 7.1 Compulsive, Sexual, or Serial Murder? 197(1) 7.2 Premodern Examples of Compulsive Homicide 198(3) 7.3 Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis 201(5) 7.4 Compulsive Homicides in the First Half of the 20th Century 206(5) 7.5 Examples from the Latter Half of the 20th Century 211(6) 7.6 The Study of Compulsive Homicide in the Modern Era 217(8) 7.7 Influence of Investigative Profiling 225(5) 7.7.1 Profiling Basics 227(1) 7.7.2 Crime Scene and Personality Patterns 227(1) 7.7.3 Need for More Research 228(2) 7.8 Comment 230(3) 8 Planned Compulsive Homicides 233(38) 8.1 Sadism 234(17) 8.1.1 Psychodynamic View of Sadism 235(1) 8.1.2 Other Views of Sadism 236(2) 8.1.3 Some Empirical Findings 238(13) 8.2 Fantasy 251(10) 8.2.1 Sexually Aggressive Fantasies 252(6) 8.2.2 Fantasy and the Ritualistic Offender 258(3) 8.3 Compulsion to Kill 261(6) 8.4 Murderous Partners and Murderers' Romantic Partners 267(3) 8.4.1 Killer Partners 267(2) 8.4.2 Killers' Romantic Partners 269(1) 8.5 Comment 270(1) 9 Unplanned Compulsive Homicides 271(38) 9.1 Personality as an Intervening Variable 271(3) 9.2 Descriptions of Compulsive Murderers Who Do Not Plan 274(5) 9.2.1 The Disorganized Murderer 275(2) 9.2.2 Hazelwood and Warren's Impulsive Offender 277(1) 9.2.3 Adolescent Offenders 278(1) 9.3 Nonrecognition of the Sexual Aspect of Crimes 279(2) 9.4 Compulsion Spontaneously Released by Circumstances 281(6) 9.5 Breakthrough of Compulsion with Just Slight Stimulation 287(1) 9.6 Compulsion Released by Substances 288(2) 9.7 Unplanned Signature Murders 290(3) 9.8 Differential Diagnosis: Catathymic vs. Compulsive Homicides 293(8) 9.8.1 Acute Catathymic and Unplanned Compulsive Homicides 293(4) 9.8.2 Chronic Catathymic and Planned Compulsive Homicides 297(4) 9.9 Theories of the Compulsive Murderer 301(5) 9.9.1 Social Theories 301(1) 9.9.2 Psychological Theories 302(2) 9.9.3 Biological Theories 304(2) 9.10 A Look to the Future 306(3) 10 Prediction and Disposition 309(34) 10.1 Predicting Sexual Murder 311(25) 10.1.1 Prediction Based on the Motivational Spectrum 313(2) 10.1.2 Prediction Based on Ominous Signs 315(20) 10.1.2.1 Childhood Abuse 318(1) 10.1.2.2 Inappropriate Maternal (Sexual) Conduct 319(2) 10.1.2.3 Pathological Lying and Manipulation 321(2) 10.1.2.4 Sadistic Fantasy with a Compulsion to Act 323(2) 10.1.2.5 Animal Cruelty, Particularly toward Cats 325(1) 10.1.2.6 Need to Control and Dominate Others 326(2) 10.1.2.7 Repetitive Firesetting 328(1) 10.1.2.8 Voyeurism, Fetishism, and Sexual Burglary 329(2) 10.1.2.9 Unprovoked Attacks on Females, Associated with Generalized Misogynous Emotions 331(3) 10.1.2.10 Evidence of Ritualistic (Signature) Behavior 334(1) 10.1.3 Immediate Triggers for a Compulsive Murder 335(1) 10.2 Disposition and Intervention 336(3) 10.3 Comment 339(4) References 343(36) Index 379