Myers Wade C, Eggleston Chris F, Smoak Pamela
Division of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Florida Health Science Center, Box 100256, Gainesville, FL 32610-0256, USA.
J Forensic Sci. 2003 Nov;48(6):1385-90.
No follow-up studies exist on how minors who commit sexual homicides adjust once released back into the community. This is an important question given the extreme nature of their crimes, lack of recidivism data, and the expectation that one-half of them will be freed from prison by mid-life. Likewise, no studies exist on the role our culture's pervasive media violence plays in these offenses. This report describes a 13-year-old boy who committed a witnessed media violence-inspired sexual homicide. Follow-up information is provided on his community adjustment as an adult four years after release from prison. He had multiple indicators of brain dysfunction, and watched a "slasher" film just before committing the blitz style crime upon a female neighbor. Media violence literature is reviewed--against a backdrop of developmental abnormalities, neuropsychiatric vulnerabilities, family dysfunction, and mental illness. This case illustrates how the confluence of such variables, combined with the tinder of erotic screen violence, may lead to sexual murder.
目前尚无关于实施性杀人犯罪的未成年人获释后重新融入社区情况的后续研究。鉴于此类犯罪的极端性质、缺乏累犯数据以及预计到中年时其中一半人将从监狱获释，这是一个重要问题。同样，也没有研究探讨我们文化中普遍存在的媒体暴力在这些犯罪中所起的作用。本报告描述了一名13岁男孩，他实施了一起受媒体暴力影响且有证人目睹的性杀人犯罪。报告提供了他出狱四年后成年后在社区适应情况的后续信息。他有多个脑功能障碍指标，并且在对一名女性邻居实施闪电式犯罪之前刚看了一部“砍杀”电影。本文在发育异常、神经精神易损性、家庭功能失调和精神疾病的背景下对媒体暴力文献进行了综述。该案例说明了这些变量与色情屏幕暴力的火种相结合，如何可能导致性谋杀。
