Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 20

 

Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 20

A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES

SECOND EDITION

John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors

 

Table 4.2. Diagnoses Associated with Criminally Depraved Acts

Diagnosis (source)                                       Characteristics

Antisocial Personality Disorder                 History of Conduct Disorder in youth;

adult pattern of irresponsibility and rule breaking; exploitativeness for money, sex, and other primitive needs

Conduct Disorder                                         Childhood/adolescence of truancy, lying, fighting, destruction of property, fire set- ting, impulsivity, and cruelty to animals

Narcissistic Personality Disorder               Grandiosity, entitlement, haughtiness,

envy, intense anger

Psychopathy                                                 Brazenness, manipulative, callous, self-centered, grandiose personality, plus antisocial behavior

Sexual Sadism                                              Sexual arousal through coercion and control, including through the infliction of pain

Sadism                                                           The desire to inflict pain regardless of sexual satisfaction

Necrophilia                                                   Infatuation with death and decay

Malignant Narcissism                                 Antisocial behavior, sadism, paranoia, more ideological and more likely to attach to groups; experience others as threatening enemies rather than merely objects to be exploited

Antisocial Personality by Proxy                 Predator; physically or materially unable

to carry out an antisocial impulse, so manipulates a vulnerable and less inhibited person to do so