TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Sociodemographic and Diagnostic Characteristics of Homicidal and Nonhomicidal Sexual Offenders
JO  - Journal of forensic sciences
A1  - Koch, Judith
A1  - Berner, Wolfgang
A1  - Hill, Andreas
A1  - Briken, Peer
SP  - 1626
EP  - 1631
VL  - 56
IS  - 6
N2  - The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and "psychopathy" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-1198
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01933.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -