A sexually violent offender (SVO) is one who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense and suffers from a mental abnormality or personality disorder. These disorders can make the person more likely to engage in acts of sexual violence if not confined in a secure facility for long-term control, care, and treatment. The provision to what qualifies as sexually violent may differ from state to state, but in general, they are crimes of a sexual nature that belong to a specific constellation of crimes. These crimes include sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. These acts often result in harming not just the victim but their families, their community, and broader society. Some of these sexually violent crimes are so heinous and dangerous
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He was released in 1971 and was soon on the prowl, sodomizing a teen in 1972 and then kidnapping and molesting another teenager for eight days in 1973, subsequently burying said victim in a wooden box. This last victim was Andrew Mars who was 13 at the time - traumatized, fatigued and near death, the boy lived through the nightmare and to this day continue to work through the psychological scars (Mears, 2010). It was Ausley's crimes that encouraged the enactment of the US' Civil Commitment Program for sex offenders as releasing Ausley back to society after he served his time, despite therapy programs, has resulted in more victims and escalation on Ausley's …show more content…
If deviant behaviors are learned, it is possible that early on in life, Ausley was exposed to the normalization of child sexual abuse to the specific typology of young boys, especially if he was victimized. With pedophilia itself, a psychiatric disorder, a form of paraphilia (Psychology Today, 2017), the sexually violent offense of kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and abuse, harassment and confinement is the 'acting out' of the paraphilia - the
He was released in 1971 and was soon on the prowl, sodomizing a teen in 1972 and then kidnapping and molesting another teenager for eight days in 1973, subsequently burying said victim in a wooden box. This last victim was Andrew Mars who was 13 at the time - traumatized, fatigued and near death, the boy lived through the nightmare and to this day continue to work through the psychological scars (Mears, 2010). It was Ausley's crimes that encouraged the enactment of the US' Civil Commitment Program for sex offenders as releasing Ausley back to society after he served his time, despite therapy programs, has resulted in more victims and escalation on Ausley's …show more content…
If deviant behaviors are learned, it is possible that early on in life, Ausley was exposed to the normalization of child sexual abuse to the specific typology of young boys, especially if he was victimized. With pedophilia itself, a psychiatric disorder, a form of paraphilia (Psychology Today, 2017), the sexually violent offense of kidnapping, rape, sodomy, and abuse, harassment and confinement is the 'acting out' of the paraphilia - the