Harsher Punishments Necessary for Juvenile Sex Offenders In today’s society abuse and violence can be seen every day on television shows, the news, and out in public. When a child is harmed in a sexual manner, it is a parent’s worst nightmare. Parents think that they can trust that their children are safe when they are with family members, at school or at extra-curricular activities; however, unfortunately that is just not the case. The thought is more unsettling knowing that the fact these…
(Schechter 300). Peter Sutcliffe, also called the Yorkshire Ripper, liked to slice of the faces of his victims, gouge out their eyes, rip out their tongues, tear out their entrails and eat their genitals. Stranglers are sadistic psychos who get an arousal from strangling their victims. The first American serial killer of the twentieth century was Earle Leonard Nelson who liked to choke women to death then rape their corpses. Carlton Gary, a sex-killer nicknamed the “Stocking Strangler”, attacked…
Case Study 1: Jocelyn Rowley Diagnosis 309.81, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with dissociative symptoms. Relevant V Codes V15.41 - Personal history (past history) of sexual abuse in childhood; V61.10 - Relationship distress with spouse or intimate partner; V71.02 – Child or adolescent antisocial behavior Rationale: Jocelyn was diagnosed with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with dissociative symptoms. After being raped by her English TA, Jocelyn immediately started exhibiting signs of PTSD…
Mrs. Harrington is a 37-year-old Middle Eastern female whose primary language is Arabic, but she is also fluent in English. Her husband who states, “My wife is experiencing another manic episode, and is ‘out of control’, brought her to the facility today. He states that, “just this morning we were discussing how she has blown through the budget for a charity event.” “I told her that she could not spend any more money.” “She went into a rage saying that she was leaving me!” “Twenty-five minutes…
Effectiveness of art therapy and complementary tests on the topic of sexual assault Introduction The incidence of child abuse and neglect is the epidemic, many abused children have sustained lifelong injuries. A million children in the world are estimated to be abuse or neglect with the several reported incidents increasing in some countries steadily. Child sexual abuse(CSA), CSA is the use of a child for sexual stimulation by someone who is older or in a position of power on the child(APA.…
these aspects provide the investigators with clues into the type of offender that committed the offense and what their motivations were. It also provides some insight into the behaviour of the individual. The present research paper focuses on the sexual sadist. The behavioural characteristics of a sadistic serial killer will be looked at and will be contrasted to the behavioural characteristics of a sadistic rapist. Key terms will be defined and a case study will be provided as further evidence.…
The behavioral psychologist and researchers place the determinants of criminal personality in groups; psychosocial, cognitive, personality development, and environmental. There were much confusion in the past diagnosing this antisocial personality disorder/ psychopathy stemming from period of the DSM-I, 1952 to the DSM-5 today. In studies done by multiple researchers have verified the traits of the psychosocial variables that contributes to the development of the criminal personality type that…
Dissociative Identity Disorder, previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a psychological condition where one person’s identity is split into two or more separate personalities (Psychology Today). The condition has long been debated throughout history on its validity, as some scientists argue the condition itself may not be existent, instead hypothesizing that it is a side effect of therapist-patient probing. Despite the controversy, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) still holds a…
Literature Review History of PTSD Prior to the classification by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) as a distinct mental health disorder (APA, 1980), characteristic symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder have been identified and recorded throughout history. During the late 18th and early 19th century, the industrial revolution, despite being a man-made distressing event, was one of the first cases of PTSD external to a military conflict. Throughout the industrial revolution,…
Center for Disease Control (2013), 19.7 million new STIs occur in the United States each year. These infections can cause a variety of consequences that range from unpleasant symptoms to infertility and mortality. Another unintended consequence of sexual activity is unplanned pregnancy. 45% of all pregnancies in the United States are considered unintended (Guttmacher Institute, 2016). The rate of unintended pregnancies is much higher among younger individuals than it is among older individuals.…