@article{ref1,
title="Sociodemographic and Diagnostic Characteristics of Homicidal and Nonhomicidal Sexual Offenders",
journal="Journal of forensic sciences",
year="2011",
author="Koch, Judith and Berner, Wolfgang and Hill, Andreas and Briken, Peer",
volume="56",
number="6",
pages="1626-1631",
abstract="The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and &quot;psychopathy&quot; in homicidal and nonhomicidal sexual offenders and to investigate the specificity of previous studies on psychiatric morbidity of a sample of sexual murderers. Information from court reports of 166 homicidal and 56 nonhomicidal sex offenders was evaluated using standardized instruments (SCID-II, PCL-R) and classification systems (DSM-IV). Sexual murderers were diagnosed more often with a personality disorder (80.1% vs. 50%; p < 0.001), especially schizoid personality disorder (16.3% vs. 5.4%; p < 0.05), as well as with sexual sadism (36.7% vs. 8.9%; p < 0.001) and sexual dysfunctions (21.7% vs. 7.1%; p < 0.05). Additionally, they had more often used alcohol during the offense (63.2% vs. 41%; p < 0.05). The results indicate that sexual murderers have more and a greater variety of psychiatric disorders when compared to nonhomicidal sex offenders.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-1198",
doi="10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01933.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01933.x"
}