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  • Title: Sexual sadism in sexual offenders and sexually motivated homicide.
    Author: Briken P, Bourget D, Dufour M.
    Journal: Psychiatr Clin North Am; 2014 Jun; 37(2):215-30. PubMed ID: 24877708.
    Abstract:
    This article gives a clinically oriented overview of forensically relevant forms of sexual sadism disorder and its specific relationship to sexual homicide. In sexual homicide perpetrators, peculiar patterns of sexual sadism may be a motivational pathway to kill. Sexual sadism increases the risk for reoffending in sexual offenders. Through psychotherapy and pharmacological interventions, treatment of sadistic sex offenders has to consider special characteristics that may be different from those of nonsadistic sex offenders. Many of these offenders share a combination of sexual sadistic motives and an intact self-regulation, sometimes combined with a high level of sexual preoccupation.
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