Sexual crimes such as rape, sexually motivated murder and child molestation are constantly in the news, but how much is really known about the minds of the perpetrators? Holmes has gathered together, from interviews and written correspondence with convicted sex offenders, an exhaustive account of the mind of the violent sex offender. He also discusses cultural and historical perspectives of sexual behavior. In so doing, he provides a framework for discussing abnormal, normal, nuisance and violent sexual behavior.
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Ronald M. Holmes is Coroner, in the Jefferson County Coroner's office and Professor Emeritus of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. He is the author of several books, among them Profiling Violent Crimes, Sex Crimes, and Serial Murder. He is also the author of more than 50 articles appearing in scholarly publications. He is Vice President of the National Center for the Study of Unresolved Homicides and has completed more than 500 psychological profiles for police departments across the United States. He received his doctorate from Indiana University.
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Fasinating, riviting...but in a weird way!,
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I took a sexual devience course in college and this was required reading. I still own the book and love it! I thought that it was very organized and written in a straight forward style- no holds barred. Not for the weak stomach or anyone who even kinda gets the hebbie-jebbies by, say....child pornography. Holmes WILL describe hideous events involving all sexual deviences. What I liked most about this book was that there wasn't a lot of confusing deep analysis of peoples' psychosis. This is a good learning tool for anyone interested in criminology/psychology or sexual devience.
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Typos, misspelled and misused words,
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Great compilation of information, there is some bias noted, but the main complaint is this was required for a college course that took off points for grammar, misspelled words and the like yet this book has hundreds of them. I am not an English major but even just using Word it caught so many mistakes, let alone the ones that were patently obvious. I would love to re-edit this book for this Author. --Still shaking my head over this one--
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nuisance sex behaviors, dangerous sex crimes, child maltreatment, erotic hanging, power assertive rapist, power reassurance rapist, sexual assaulters, lust killers, regressed offender, erotic asphyxiation, sadistic rapist, many sex offenders, secondary victims, child offender Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Thousand Oaks, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Victims of Sexual Assault, Ted Bundy, Department of Justice, Englewood Cliffs, Theories of Sexual Deviance, Treatment of Sex Offenders, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, American Psychiatric Association, Violence Against Women, Deviant Behavior, Newbury Park, Jerry Brudos, Sexually Motivated Homicides, Office of the Legislative Auditor, Retrieved October, Law Enforcement Bulletin, National Institute of Justice, Federal Probation, Henry Lucas Browse Sample Pages:
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nuisance sex behaviors, dangerous sex crimes, child maltreatment, erotic hanging, power assertive rapist, power reassurance rapist, sexual assaulters, lust killers, regressed offender, erotic asphyxiation, sadistic rapist, many sex offenders, secondary victims, child offender Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Thousand Oaks, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Victims of Sexual Assault, Ted Bundy, Department of Justice, Englewood Cliffs, Theories of Sexual Deviance, Treatment of Sex Offenders, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Journal of Sex Research, American Psychiatric Association, Violence Against Women, Deviant Behavior, Newbury Park, Jerry Brudos, Sexually Motivated Homicides, Office of the Legislative Auditor, Retrieved October, Law Enforcement Bulletin, National Institute of Justice, Federal Probation, Henry Lucas Browse Sample Pages:
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