Korean J Leg Med.  2013 Feb;37(1):27-33. 10.7580/kjlm.2013.37.1.27.

Psychiatric Diagnosis and Hypersexual Behavior Inventory, Sexual Addiction Screening Test, and Beck Depression Inventory/Beck Anxiety Inventory of the Sexual Offenders

• Lee JH
• Kim HS
• Lee JW
• Park WS
• Lim MH

• KMID: 2250277
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.7580/kjlm.2013.37.1.27

Abstract

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.

Keyword

Sexual offender; Paraphilia and psychiatric diagnosis; Inventory

MeSH Terms

Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Axis, Cervical Vertebra
Bipolar Disorder
Criminals
Depression
Depressive Disorder
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Forensic Psychiatry
Humans
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
Male
Mass Screening
Mental Disorders
Paraphilic Disorders
Personality Disorders
Psychological Tests
Psychopathology
Schizophrenia
Sex Offenses
Social Justice

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