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Asperger's Disorder and Violent Offending/ Sexual Offending
Relationship with Violence
More common than previously recognized
Ghaziuddin and colleagues (1991)
21 cases
3 of 132 patients (2.27%) had a history of violence
6-7% rape, robbery, and assault
individuals aged 12-24 years
Qualitative perspective
Violence described as "domestic in nature"
"Morbid fascination" for violence
Tantam 1988
link to sexual crimes
Danish Criminal Register
used to examine rates of criminal convictions
313 former child psychiatric inpatients with PDD's
results indicated increased convictions for sexual offending
Neuropsychiatric developmental model (NDM) for serial murder
five causative components
neuropsychiatric development
psychopath
aggressive behavior
sexual psychopathology
environmental stressors
Silva and colleagues (2002,2003,2004,2005)
Asperger's may play a key role in pathogenesis forms of serial homicidal behavior
serial killing has been linked to schizoid personality disorder
close conceptual and symptomatic relationship
NDM and ecological cases
Jeffery Dahmer
Theodore Kaczynski (Unabomber)
Joel Rifkin
Problems of Sexuality
early signs of strong sexual activity
public masturbation
exhibitionism
sadism
Sexual offending may derive from social skills
poor relation with the opposite sex
due to general social ineptitude
cannot communicate appropriately to attract a partner
Characterized outcome
increased sex drive
may sexually offend by kissing or touching a stranger
Wing (1981)
34 individuals with asperger's
4 have a history with "bizarre antisocial acts"
1 individual injured another boy
case of PM in adult males
passenger on bus
stared at women, approached and rubbed himself on her bottom
failed to recognize fear in woman
PM's offending behavior becomes understood in context of social deflects
Abnormal sexual interests
contribute to their nonsexual offending behavior
suffer from paraphilia/fetishism
Paraphilia
partialism (focusing on body parts)
necrophilia (deceased person)
fetishism (symbolic extensions)