The Role of Psychopathy in Sexual Aggression

Dr. Raymond Knight earned his doctorate at the University of Minnesota in 1973. He has been teaching at Brandeis University since 1971, and is currently the Mortimer Gryzmish Professor of Human Relations. He has been doing research on sexual aggression for the last thirtytwo years. He has developed and validated both taxonomic and etiological models for rapists and child molesters and has completed a 25-year follow-up of sex offenders released from the Massachusetts Treatment Center. He is currently validating the Multidimensional Inventory of Development, Sex, and Aggression (the MIDSA), which is a computerized contingency-based inventory that provides a comprehensive assessment of multiple critical areas of adaptation for juvenile and adult sexual offenders. He has over a hundred publications in the areas of sexual aggression, psychopathy, and schizophrenia. He has served as president of both the Society for Research in Psychopathology and the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, and he is currently on the Executive Board of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.

Mercredi 6 mai 2009 
11h45 à 13h00 
Pavillon Lionel Groulx, 3150 rue Jean-Brillant
Salle C-4141

Résumé de la conférence : Psychopathy and the dimensions that underlie its phenotypic expression play different roles in sexual crimes against women and children. This colloquium will present research from our laboratory on the different roles that the dimensions of psychopathy play in the etiology, typological differentiation, and prediction of recidivism in rape and child molestation.