Scripting Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: A Latent Class Analysis of the Entire Crime-Commission Process

This study aims to empirically explore the patterns of necrophilic behaviors in sexual homicide. More specifically, the study investigates offender, victim, and crime characteristics of sexual homicides where necrophilic acts were perpetrated, to determine whether the primary motivation to kill is associated with the attainment of corpses or whether the post-mortem sexual acts were secondary deviant behaviors. The sample used in this study consists of 109 cases of extrafamilial sexual homicides where post-mortem sexual acts were committed by offenders. Latent class analysis was used to examine each step of the crime-commission process of sexual homicide offenders involved in necrophilic behaviors. Our findings suggest that there are four different patterns of necrophilia in sexual homicide: Opportunistic, experimental, preferential, and sadistic. Preferential offenders are the only ones who specifically kill their victims in order to have sex with their corpses, while for sadistic, experimental, and opportunistic offenders post-mortem sexual acts were part of a secondary deviant process. Practical implications in terms of criminal investigations and offenders’ treatment are discussed.

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Erratum to “Youth self-report of physical and sexual abuse: A latent class analysis” [Child Abuse & Neglect 34 (2010) 146–154]

Child Abuse & Neglect ◽

10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.04.001 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 155

Author(s):

Kate B. Nooner ◽

Alan J. Litrownik ◽

Richard Thompson ◽

Benyamin Margolis ◽

Diana J. English ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Abuse ◽

Latent Class Analysis ◽

Latent Class ◽

Self Report ◽

Class Analysis ◽

Youth Self Report ◽

Physical And Sexual Abuse

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A latent class analysis of parent–child discrepancies in reports of peer victimization: Associations to child sexual abuse status and psychological adjustment

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579420001522 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Amélie Tremblay-Perreault ◽

Martine Hébert ◽

Laetitia Mélissande Amédée

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Latent Class Analysis ◽

Peer Victimization ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Latent Class ◽

Comparison Group ◽

Abused Children ◽

Self Reports ◽

Sexually Abused Children

Abstract Researchers face an important challenge when assessing peer victimization in children, since self-reports are often discrepant with parent-reports. A latent class analysis identified patterns of response to items assessing peer victimization, which were either divergent or convergent between the parent and the child. Classes were then compared on the child sexual abuse status and on various behavioral and social outcomes. Participants were 720 school-aged child victims of sexual abuse and a comparison group of 173 nonvictims and their caregivers. We identified two discordant subgroups (self-identified and parent-identified) and two concordant groups (nonvictims and concordant victims of peer victimization). Compared to children of the comparison group, sexually abused children were five times more likely to be identified as targets of peer victimization solely by their parent than the contrary. Sexually abused children with concordant reports of peer victimization showed the poorest adjustment on all studied outcomes assessed 6 months later. Children who discounted experiencing peer victimization while their parent reported it were also at risk of maladjustment. Results underscore the importance of supplementing self-reports with other available sources of information, especially in young and vulnerable populations who may be inclined to discount their victimization experiences.

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