CRIM 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Operant Conditioning, Limbic System, Precrime

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 316
• Professor: Eric Beauregard

Document Summary

Week 7, lecture 7 oct 18 - lethal outcome in sexual assaults. Problems of definition: no legal definition(for sexual homicide, confusion of terms (lust, serial, mass murders, gender and age of victims. Definition from the fbi: a murder is of a sexual nature when it includes one of the following: A) victim"s attire or lack of attire. B) exposure of the sexual parts of the victim"s body. C) sexual positioning of the victim"s body. D) insertion of foreign objects into the victim"s body cavities. E) evidence of sexual intercourse (oral, anal, vaginal), and. F) evidence of substitute sexual activity, interest, or sadistic fantasy. Some numbers: canada (1974-1986): 305 sex homicides in canada (23/year) = *approx. 4%* of all homicides & 0. 9/100 000 habitants: serial murder 1975-1995 = 153 serial murderer killing more than 1400 victims. 60% of serial murderers = sexual murderers. Usa: 2% of sex murderers = serial. Canada: 3% of sex murderers = serial.