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[2013] 5. Jun Hyung Lee, Hyun Sic Kim, Jae Woo Lee, Woo Sung Park, Myung Ho Lim |
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Publication; issue : 2013 Year 37 Vol 1 iss 27-33 p
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Psychiatric Diagnosis and Hypersexual Behavior Inventory, Sexual Addiction Screening Test, and Beck Depression Inventory/Beck Anxiety Inventory of the Sexual Offenders
Korean J Leg Med 2013;37:27-33. Korean
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Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam, Korea
Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, Ministry of Justice, Gongju-si, Chungcheongnam, Korea
Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Dankook University, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam, Korea
E-mail : paperose@dku.edu
The current study evaluated DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses and investigated the psychological characteristics of sexual offenders by using the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory(HBI), Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Fifty male sexual offenders and 36 male healthy controls completed the psychiatric diagnosis and 30 of the 50 male sexual offenders completed the psychological tests listed above. Thirty-two of the 50 sexual offenders were patients with paraphilias, these sexual offenders had been admitted by the Ministry of Justice to the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry in Gongjui-si due to sexual violence. Participants displayed high lifetime rates of psychiatric disorders: 32 (64%) had paraphilias, 16 (32%) had depressive disorders, 10 (20%) had anxiety disorders, 9 (18%) had impulse control disorders, 6 (12%) had schizophrenia, 2 (4%) had bipolar disorders, and 16 (32%) had personality disorders or some other Axis Ⅱ disorder. Scores for the sexual offenders were significantly higher both on the HBI and the SAST than the comparison group. Scores for the sexual offenders were also higher for the BDI and the BAI as compared to the control group, but this difference was not statistically significant. Results indicate that sexual offenders may have sexual addictions and be hypersexual. In addition to depressive and anxious psychopathologies, they also seem to have sexual psychopathologies. These results suggested that the psychopathology of sexual offenders may be different than that of a control group.
Key words : Sexual offender, Paraphilia and psychiatric diagnosis, Inventory
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