TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper explores the link between sexual offending and antisocial personality. Drawing on previous research, it illustrates that sex offenders with an antisocial personality are a heterogeneous group, differentiated by several factors. They victimise children, adults or both, those who victimise adults or adults and children are more psychopathic. They are motivated primarily by non‐sexual factors like opportunistic impulsivity or generalised anger, and violence is a source of erotic pleasure in some cases. A small group of men, however, are driven to offend by sadistic sexual fantasies of a serious nature, which develop over time and later form the basis of their violent predatory assaults. Varying definitions of antisocial personality confuse the research, and diagnostic co‐morbidity means that pure psychopathic types are probably rare.
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
SN  - 1463-6646
DO  - 10.1108/14636646200700017
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646200700017
AU  - Greenall Paul
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - Sexual offending and antisocial personality: exploring the link
T2  - The British Journal of Forensic Practice
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 24
EP  - 30
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -