Karakasi Maria-Valeria, Vasilikos Epameinondas, Voultsos Polichronis, Vlachaki Aikaterini, Pavlidis Pavlos
Psychiatric Department, G. Papanikolaou General Hospital of Thessaloniki, GR 57010, Exohi, Asvestoxori, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2017 Feb;46:1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2016.12.005. Epub 2016 Dec 20.
The objective of the current paper is to report a new case of sexual murder involving human arson and summarize the literature on the phenomenon of sexual homicide. The present case study is unprecedented in Greece and a rarity in international literature due to the fact that the victim suffered genital mutilation and incineration while still alive. The evaluation consisted of 176 articles; 53 were reviewed by the authors. The results revealed sparse, but significant, research findings. The authors discuss the limitations regarding research, incidence of the phenomenon, crime-scene patterns, offender characteristics (killing methods, motive inferences, sociodemographic data, classifications, psychopathology, modus operandi), and victim selection. The incidence of the phenomenon is unclear (1-4%) due to non-standardized criteria. It is an expression of displaced anger or sexual sadism and/or a way to elude detection (ancillary benefit). Most offenders (in their first kill) and victims were in their late 20s to early 30s and belong to Caucasian populations. Personal weapons were commonly used against women, strangulation is the prevalent killing method against children, and firearms against men. Most of the sexual homicide perpetrators are non-psychotic at the time of the attack, but experience personality pathology, primitive defenses, pathological object relations, and withdrawal into fantasy in order to deal with social isolation.
本文的目的是报告一起涉及人体纵火的性谋杀新案例，并总结有关性杀人现象的文献。本案例研究在希腊是前所未有的，在国际文献中也很罕见，因为受害者在还活着的时候遭受了生殖器切割和焚烧。评估包括176篇文章；作者审阅了其中53篇。结果显示研究结果稀少但具有重要意义。作者讨论了研究的局限性、该现象的发生率、犯罪现场模式、犯罪者特征（杀人方法、动机推断、社会人口数据、分类、精神病理学、作案手法）以及受害者选择。由于标准不统一，该现象的发生率尚不清楚（1%-4%）。它是转移愤怒或性施虐的一种表现和/或逃避侦查的一种方式（附带益处）。大多数犯罪者（首次作案）和受害者年龄在20多岁到30岁出头，属于白种人群体。常用个人武器对付女性，勒死是对付儿童的主要杀人方法，枪支则用于对付男性。大多数性杀人犯罪者在作案时并非精神病患者，但存在人格病理学问题、原始防御机制、病态客体关系，并通过陷入幻想来应对社会孤立。
