Sex Offender
Minority in Criminal Justice
February 6, 2012

Submitted by:
Sherry Gadson
Instructor Shawnna Williams

Abstract
Growing up never knowing the different cases of sex offenders, became astonishing to me. I was surprise when I heard about A person that I grew up with was on television for committing a sexual assault on a minor. This same person grew up with my nephew Tory. Throughout the years, growing up this person became a problem with the law from teenage to adult years. He has been charge with several crimes. You would think having to be incarcerated for more than five years at a time one will learn what is best for them. However, it is hard to know what one goes through in their mind. It could have been something he has witness or even went through as a child. One thing for sure is we know he has a problem with society

A sex offender (also sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who committed a sex crime, although what constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and by legal jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, offenses include child sexual abuse, downloading child pornography, rape, and statutory rape. In much of the United States, public urination, mooning, streaking, and the failure to prevent one's own teenage children from engaging in otherwise consensual sexual activity also, result being designated as a sex offender, requiring registration as such in publicly available, online lists. The term sexual predator is often used to describe severe or repeat sex offenders.
Rape is a crime of violence in which sex is the weapon. Among violent sexual offenders, often the only logic to their crimes is internal to the criminal; they alone know why they committed their crimes. The sexual component of a crime is not always self-evident. The behavior may be blatant, or it may be so subtle that it escapes detection. Then again, some crimes may only seem to be sexually motivated. Some people preferentially act out their desires with prepubescent children teenagers or the elderly. Others select age mates as their victims and a few will sexually assault victims of any age. Certain offenders commit exclusive homosexual crimes, others limit themselves to offenses against heterosexuals, and others are attracted to either gender. Some sexual crimes involve only the sense of sight only the sense of hearing or only the sense of touch. However, most offenders will employ all of the available senses. Many offenders are aroused by a victim's suffering while their own pain excites others. Then there are sadomasochists, who may be aroused in either very simultaneously or in separate incidents.
Highly ritualistic behavior marks some types of sexual crimes. While others are characteristized by impulsiveness at times. Strange mixes of both ritualism and spontaneity. A victim’s torment may be heightened by extended captivity conversely, as in cases involving comatose patients, those under anesthesia or victims who have been given the date rape drug, the target might be completely unaware of what is happening. The rapist achieves his gratigfication, not from sexual release, but from the thrill of domination, control and power. You might define fantasy as a mental rehearsal of a desired event. This mental rehearsal plays a center role in the enactment of sexual offenses. It serves as a kind of editing mechanism that allows the offender to focus on the details of the crime that are uniquely arousing to him. A misperception is that sadists are aroused by the infliction of pain. In fact, what excites the sadist is the suffering of the victim. It is true that sexual sadists use physical and or psychological pain to produce suffering, but the suffering is the most important thing to them.
Thinking criminals are keen students of their own crimes, honing their skills with each offense, learning from their mistakes. However, they also reach out for enlightenment wherever it may be found. A sexual offender’s narcissism can be demonstrated in many ways. Before the crime, a narcisstic offender exhibits selfishness, self-centeredness and an inability to accept criticism, even constructive critics. During the crime, the narcissistic criminal may engage in high-risk activity. Even though otherwise an organized offender. However, the period following a crime is when his narcissism often is most obvious one of the classic ways in which such an offender betrays his self-centeredness is by courting the media. The crime scene is a central feature of a sexual criminals work product. For many offenders, the work is so valuable that they devise elaborate and occasional ingenious ways to preserve it. The sexual sadist is a meticulous planner, spending inordinate amounts of time inside his own head. He may devote months or even years imagining his intended crime.

A non-sexual sadist gains pleasure from causing pain or discomfort usually in a social or work environment and most often to subordinates or perceived inferiors. The two types of sexual offenders with the most characteristics in common are sexual sadists and pedophiles. Pedophile and child molester often are used interchangeably but they are different. Pedophile in psychiatric usage describes an individual who preferentially attracted sexually to a prepubescent child. However, a pedophile does not become a criminal until he molests a child. A child molester is a legal term used to describe any person who sexually molests a child. All child molesters are criminals and a pedophile who acts out against a child consequently is a child molester. The adult male criminal pedophile deliberately preys on children. Manipulation, domination, control. These are watchwords of sexual predators, be they stalkers, rapists, or killers. Any sexual predator, before he has been in the business too long, has his own preferences and learns his own techniques. He knows how to locate and identify (profile) at the victim of preference. The victim of opportunity. He knows how to set inside that victim's head and create the effect he is looking for. Manipulation, domination, control of the victim, then manipulation, domination and control of law enforcement.

Sexual predators and child molesters do enjoy their crimes; in fact, many of them do not even consider them crimes. They don't want to change as we see with other serial rapists there would likely be have been some triggering events-precipitation stressors in the suspects life preceding most rapes. Criminals tend to start out in area where their comfort level is the highest, which generally means close to home and or work. Criminals do learn from their mistakes. Power-Reassurance Rapist feels himself to be very inadequate, not the type with whom women would voluntarily become involved. He is looking for reassurance of his own power and potency. This type has sometimes been referred to as the gentleman rapist or even classified as an unselfish rapist, in large part because his offenses, are usually less physically damaging to his victim than those of the other types of offenses. This type tends to be a loner who fantasizes that his victim is actually enjoying the experience and might even fall in love with him as a result. The reality of the rape can't live up to his fantasy instead of winning over his reluctant lover, he's terrorized, hurt and angered an innocent person, and most rapists of this type will admit that they don’t enjoy the sex with their victim's. The experience, then, will not satisfy his underlying obsession and he will have to try again with another woman. Victim's of choice are generally about the same age or younger and usually of the same race as the perpetrator. If he dates, the woman will be younger and less sophisticated then he; this is the only way he can feel equal. He gains control by surprise; he does not have the self-confidence or skills to con his way into a victim's apartment smoothly and is more likely to break in the middle of the night. He probably prefers the night, operates within his own residential or work area-in other words his comfort zone, and usually travels to the crime scene on foot.

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