| Chapter 1: | Profiling Erotophonophilia |
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impulsive crimes of passion (Cornell, Warren, Hawk, Stafford, Oram, & Pine, 1996; Fattah, 2000; Woodworth & Porter, 2002).
Behavioral Disorders, Psychosexual Characteristics, and Fantasy
Human beings anticipate and plan using imagination and fantasy (James, 2003) in anticipation of future encounters. Sexually violent fantasies have been found to provide a distinctive linkage between fantasies and lust murder (Brittain, 1970; Meloy, 2000; Zurbiggen & Yost, 2004). The fantasies are described as a prelude (leading up to) to the homicidal event and, as such, the crime scene and its artifacts (evidence) represent clues to the motivation, fantasy, and psychological predispositions of the offender. The linking of the psychological and psychosocial histories and psychobiological development to extremely violent behavior, preoccupation with violent fantasies, and their merger into offence activities are important to understand if one is to accurately interpret the crime scene artifacts and create an offender profile.
Typologies of lust murder involve the selection of data, literature, and research that assist in the focusing of law-enforcement investigative outcomes rather than for the purposes of psychiatric diagnosis or treatment (Tellis, 1997). In case studies, no statistical manipulations occur. The results of the comparison of typologies with the selected case murderers are derived through descriptive and comparative analytic methods to reveal congruence in the cases (Maxwell, 2005).