Pathologic sexual aggression in practice

Preventing Sexual Aggression

The present research describes one arm of the Community Programming Initiative, a dualpronged sexual assault prevention effort (N = 1285). Men and women living in randomly selected 1 year residence halls participated in tailored single-sex sexual assault prevention, or risk reduction programs, respectively. An evaluation of the sexual assault prevention program for men is presented (N = 635). T...

Managing pathologic aggression in people with psychotic disorders.

A 55-year-old man had longstanding paranoid beliefs that the police were responsible for his personal bankruptcy. He believed they wanted to kill him through actual or simulated suicide, and he often carried a revolver. After attempting suicide by firearm, delusional disorder and major depression were diagnosed and he started risperidone and citalopram. A few years later, he shot 5 people, kil ...

Aggression and sexual offense in Asperger's syndrome.

Asperger's Syndrome is one of the diagnostic subcategories of pervasive developmental disorders. It is characterized by a defect in reciprocal social interaction, lack of empathy for others and poor non-verbal communication. Antisocial acts, including aggression and sexual offense, are not considered to be common in this disorder. We describe an adolescent with Asperger's Syndrome whose main pr...

Aggression, empathy and sexual orientation in males

Homosexual males are reported to be less physically aggressive than heterosexual males (Ellis, Hoffman, & Burke, 1990; Gladue & Bailey, 1995). Previous aggression studies have not, however, compared all forms of direct aggression, indirect aggression and empathy among these populations. Empathy is a significant factor to consider since it both mitigates the expression of aggression (Kaukiainen ...

Juvenile Sexual Aggression: A Critical Review