Understanding Sex Offenders: An Introductory Curriculum Section 4: Subtypes and Typologies

Section 42 Child sexual abusers Fixated Regressed Groth’s Typologies (Groth & Bimbaum, 1978)

Section 43 Groth’s Typologies (Cont.) Anger rapist Power rapist Sadistic rapist (Groth, 1979) Rapists

Section 44 MTC: Child Molester 3 Typology Degree of Fixation High Low Social Competence (Type 0) High Social Competence (Type 1) Low Low Social Competence (Type 2) High Social Competence (Type 3) (Knight & Prentky, 1990)

Section 45 MTC: Child Molester 3 Typology (Cont.) Amount of Contact High Interpersonal (Type 1) Narcissistic (Type 2) Low Low Physical Injury Non-Sadistic (Type 3) Sadistic (Type 4) High Physical Injury Non-Sadistic (Type 5) Sadistic (Type 6) (Knight & Prentky, 1990)

Section 46 MTC: Rapist Typology Primary Motivation Opportunistic High Social Competence (Type 1) Low Social Competence (Type 2) Pervasively Angry (Type 3) Sexual Gratification Sadistic Overt (Type 4) High Social Competence/ Muted (Type 5) Non-Sadistic High Social Competence (Type 6) Low Social Competence (Type 7) Vindictive Low Social Competence (Type 8) Moderate Social Competence (Type 9) (Knight & Prentky, 1990)

Section 47 Self-Regulation Model Subtypes Subtype Avoidant PassiveActive Approach AutomaticExplicit (Ward & Hudson, 1998, 2000; Ward et al., 1998)