Offender Sadistic Behaviors

Week 7 - Sadistic and Autoerotic Behavior
Describe and discuss various offender sadistic behavior characteristics associated with various criminal behaviors and criminal offender personalities. Sadistic behaviors involve gaining pleasure from seeing others suffer from discomfort or pain. However, the term sadistic is often misused or misunderstood in the forensic community, for instance, anger-retaliatory behaviors and sexual desires towards non-interactive or deceased victims can easily be miscategorized as sadistic behaviors (Geberth & Turco, 1997). Sadistic behavior, or the act of intentionally inflicting pain on a living, conscious victim as a mean of sexual gratification, may be found in cases of rape, anal assault, strangulation, biting and
In the 1600s, English brothel owners experimented with hanging as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. This form of depriving one of oxygen to reach the utopia between life and death have resulted in accidental death by the over zealous. As an investigator, autoerotic asphyxia can easily be overlooked at as a homicide or a suicide, therefore it is imperative to objectively observe the circumstances surrounding a possible autoerotic death scene (Turvey, 2012). One should consider autoerotic asphyxiation vice suicide as the cause of deaths if a corpse was found nude, cross-dressed, or with the genitals exposed in conjunction with the level of privacy where the incident occurred, if there is any evidence of fantasy or fetish activity, if the methods of asphyxiation could be self induced, or if there is some sort of ‘quick release device’ present. Additionally, the National Institute of Mental Health reports that depression, substance-abuse and other mental health disorders in 90 percent of suicides cases which may be a great indicator for investigators (Hucker & Blanchard,