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TYPES OF RAPISTS

Power Rapists: Goal to humiliate

1. Power Reassurance (a.k.a. “gentleman rapist,” opportunity

rapist,
compensator
y)

Motivation
• Insecure
• To possess, not
harm
• Feels inadequacy with women – much self-
doubt
• Rape to restore self-
confidence
• Confirmation of manhood – ensure she
enjoyed it
• Often done in conjunction with
another crime Method of Attack
• Threat of weapon, but often without having one, and any use of
weapon will be
one of
opportunity Behavior
• Reassures victim's
safety
• Will often attempt to instigate the victim to talk dirty to him, but he will
rarely
 speak obscenely
Apologetic/expression
of guilt Involves victim in
sexual activity
Low aggression
exhibited
• Does not cause unnecessary
physical harm
Selects victim in advance
• Victim in close proximity of
rapist
• Attack for short period of time; longer with more
compliance
• Contacts victim post
attack
• Often believes the experience was
pleasurable for the victim Personal Information
• Average education level is 10th grade
. Most often single and living with one or
both parents
• Few friends and no sex
partner
• Aggressive and possibly seductive
mother . Will tend to terminate the rape
if victim resists
• Most likely of all rapists to be dissuaded if scream, cry,
plead, or fight
2. Power Assertive (a.k.a. entitlement, exploitative, can be a “date
rapist”) Motivation
• Insecure, but comes across to have no self-
doubt
• To possess, not harm, but harm often occurs
 • Feels inadequate with women -
overactive ego
• Restore self-
confidence
• Confirmation of manhood – rapes because he is a man and
entitled to
• Express virility and personal
dominance Method of Attack
• Mainly verbal threats .
Control, mastery, humiliation
• Force with a weapon, but often only to ensure
cooperation
• Desires little victim interaction; rapist’s pleasure in
primary
• Stereotypically known as
“macho” Behavior
• Use of obscene language .
Explicit sexually; demanding
• Often repeatedly attacks single
victim
• Sexually punishes by pulling, pinching,
biting
• Bondage often
employed
• Similar with anger retaliatory – goal is to humiliate
victim
• Moderate to high aggression
exhibited
• Non-lethal goal, but death can occur due to brutality
employed
• Tends to be unorganized as has little control over impulses,
but weaponry
planning can show organization
 • Victim selected in advance at times, but often opportunistic
• Finds victim often at single bar
locations
• Selects safe location, victim dependent; often transports
victim to assault
locatio
n
• Victim held captive during
rape
• Desire to leave victim physically and
emotionally traumatized Personal Information
• 69% raised in single-parent
family
• 74% physically abused as
a child
• High school
dropout
• Serial marriages – has existing
consistent sex partner
• Dishonorable discharge from the
military
• Domestic problems (in attempt to validate
macho image)
• Image
conscious
• Masculine type job – construction,
police officer
Anger Rapists – Goal to
Torture

3. Anger Retaliatory (a.k.a.

displaced anger)
Motivation
• Rage towards one person/punish women expressing
his rage
• Often misdirected impulses of hatred toward
random victim Method of Attack
• Brutal and violent initially, using sex as the
weapon
• Weapon (e.g.,
explosives)
• Not
negotiable
• Blames victim for their unfortunate
life
• Obscene language
• Excessive brutality – much
injury
• Tends to be unorganized, but is organized in
process
Stranger attack; unplanned and
emotional
• Victim population planned; symbolizes whom/what offender
hates . Seeks women of his own race and age group,
sometimes older . Depending on level of organization,
weaponry can be extensive
• Offender sees their own life as a
message to others Behavior & Personal Information
• Attack is short and emotional; experiences satisfaction once anger
discharged
• Short period of time – diffuses anger and escapes, generally
leaving body if
victim is killed . On average,
completed 9th grade education
• Physical harm before
sexual harm . Often
 drug/alcohol abuser
• Socially competent; likely to be married and does not
assault wife . Tends to be an adulterer
• Comes from unhealthy home, with more than half having
been abused by
parents.
• 80% come from a divorced home; more than half spent time
in foster care

4. Anger Excitation (a.k.a. sadistic)

Motivation
Sexual gratification from victim's suffering Control, physical
aggression, torture Often similar victims, reflecting
something the rapist wants to destroy Sexual-aggressive
fantasies
To inflict physical and psychological pain on victims –
with the goal to kill the victims
• Initially charming and
intelligent
• Gains trust through
planned con
• Hostile language more than profane
language
• Extreme mood swings during encounter, if long
encounter
• Demands to be called certain names during attack (usually
to establish
dominance-submission
relationship)
• Asks victim if inflicting pain for self-
gratification
• Humiliates through torture; professing victim's
meaninglessness
 • Excited by victim's emotional/physical
pain
• Records attack – videos, photographs,
journals
• Fetishes – body parts mutilated (e.g.,
necrophilia)
• Opportunistic in victim
selection
• Authority positions; easily
trusted
• Plans all details (con, pick-up, attack in comfort zone,
disposal)
• Methodically murdered – highly ritualistic
• Victim type – vulnerable, seducible, nonaggressive, low
self-esteem
• Aggression increases with each
attack
• Disposes off victim (this is the offender type most likely to hide
the victim's
body
)
Special instruments to attack
• Portrays themselves as
caring . Victim always a
stranger
• Long attack, ranging from hours
to days
• Rapist often mildly intoxicated
during act Personal Information
• Often will lead a secret life – married, middle-class family
man, white-collar
occupation, etc.
• Intellectual – some college
education
• Drugs/alcohol commonly
present
• Often have antisocial
personalities
• Aggressive in everyday life (job type, etc.) – often obsessive-
compulsive
• More than half were raised in single-
parent home . More than half have divorced
parents
• More than were physically abused . May
have been raised in sexually deviant home