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Psychology and Law
2011. Vol. 1, no. 2
ISSN: 2222-5196 (online)

Sexual Offenders' Settings Towards a Victim

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A.D. Serov, K.V. Syrokvashina, I.A. Basinskaya

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Abstract

The article describes cultural, social and individual psychological peculiarities of development of delinquent sexual behavior. Special emphasis in made on the factor of sexual offenders’ setting towards the victim. It was suggested that sexual offenders’ representations of a victim and her/his beliefs are often distorted: victim’s normal behavior, not associated with sexuality, is understood by offenders as provoking them to sexual intercourse. Different viewpoints on the reasons for development of such settings are discussed. The article also describes some negative sociocultural stereotypes in the sphere of sexuality. The results of empirical research aimed at investigation of sexual offenders’ settings towards the violated women as well as pedophilic actions are provided. These results allow concluding on differences in mechanisms of a victim’s representation in different types of sexual offenders.

General Information

Keywords: delinquent sexual behavior, sexual offence, offenders’ setting towards a victim, risk factors, rape, child seduction, sexual offender’s personality, gender stereotypes.

Journal rubric: Forensic and Clinical Psychology in Legal Context

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Serov A.D., Syrokvashina K.V., Basinskaya I.A. Sexual Offenders' Settings Towards a Victim [Elektronnyi resurs]. Psikhologiya i pravo = Psychology and Law, 2011. Vol. 1, no. 2 (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Alexander D. Serov, Post-graduate Student of the Department of Legal Psychology of the Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow City Psychological Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: serov-up@narod.ru

Ksenia V. Syrokvashina, PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Child and Adolescent Psychology, V.P. Serbsky National Medical Research Center of Psychiatry and Narcology of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3172-6130, e-mail: syrokvashina@mail.ru

Irina A. Basinskaya, PhD in Medicine, Chief Physician, Orel Psychiatric Hospital of a Specialized Type with Intensive Supervision, Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Orel State University named after I.S. Turgenev ”(Orel), Orel, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3445-9285, e-mail: opbstin@ya.ru

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