Lust serial killers
The classification of murder has been described by various experts including law enforcement personnel, criminologists, and psychologists. Lust serial murder is the act of deviant behaviors by the means of brutally and sadistically killing multiple victims to achieve ultimate sexual satisfaction with cooling off periods. [1] The most common motives within the lust crimes are the gaining of pleasure, control, and satisfaction toward hostile fantasies through the resulting of crimes. Lust murderers are likely to repeat the crimes over a long period of time with increase of aggressive paraphilia process. The paraphilia within the lust murders are usually involving of mutilation, flagellation, picquerism, cannibalism, vampirism, and necrophilia with victim bodies. [2] Defines by the FBI, lust serial murderers are premeditate of each sexual offenses. Both of nature and content of the killing consistence with their sexual fantasy. Lust murderer cannot escape from his own fantasy and over time the imagines increasingly violent and deadly to escalate the lust offenders to attack. The result of the attack satisfies the offender sexual lust including power, domination, molestation, and degradation or humiliation of others. [3] The creation of fantasy and paraphilia within the lust murderers are through their childhood development. They were predispose to trauma events; such as being sexually abuse or violently abuse by caregivers or other adults. Those individual cannot cope with past trauma events will likely to foster feelings of self-doubt, hopelessness, and helplessness. The lack of self-esteem lead the individual to isolate from society and the ability to form attachment with others. From this stage, the individual will daydreaming and fantasy become a stand-in for the social relationships that maladjusted individual is incapable of forming. [4] Fantasy then become a safe place for that individual to fall into once encounter similar trauma events in the past experiences. Sexual fantasy active paraphilia system and eventually become process in and of itself. Most sexual lust offenders sustain their paraphilia process through fantasy, compulsive masturbation, and facilitators.[5] Facilitators are usually alcohols, drugs, and pornography. [6]
References
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- ^ Arrigo, B. A., & Purcell, C. E. (2001). Explaining paraphilias and lust murder: Toward an Integrated Model. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45(1), 7
- ^ Arrigo, B.A., & Purcell, C.E. (2006). The psychology of lust murder. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
- ^ Myers, W. C., Husted, D. S., Safarik, M. E., & O'Toole, M. (2006). The motivation behind serial sexual homicide: Is it sex, power, and control, or anger?. Journal of Forensic Sciences (Blackwell Publishing Limited), 51(4), 902
- ^ Arrigo, B. A., & Purcell, C. E. (2001). Explaining paraphilias and lust murder: Toward an Integrated Model. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45(1), 9
- ^ Arrigo, B. A., & Purcell, C. E. (2001). Explaining paraphilias and lust murder: Toward an Integrated Model. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45(1), 22
- ^ Arrigo, B. A., & Purcell, C. E. (2001). Explaining paraphilias and lust murder: Toward an Integrated Model. International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, 45(1), 22