DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2019.3.29083

Abstract: The object of this scientific research is the personality of a sexually violent offender. Special attention is given to the pre-puberty and puberty periods as the most significant in development and formation of a person. An attempt is made to determine the causes and conditions that define the formation of sexually violent motivation, the key element of which, in the authors’ opinion, is the defects of psychosexual development, consisting in formation of destructive sexuality that leads to an anomaly of sexual behavior, including sexual violence. The goal of this work is to determine the source of formation of sexually violent motivation. The foundation of this research was comprised of the criminological and psychological-psychiatric analysis, which included examination and interviews of 132 individuals, who were have been charged with sexual violence offences, but at the time of interviews have not yet been convicted. The conclusion is made that destructive sexuality forms at the stages of primary and interim socialization. These stages correspond to three stages of psychosexual development, each containing factors that can serve as the starting point for formation of destructive sexuality underlying the motivation of sexual violence. Stage of infantile sexuality – deformed relationship with the mother; stage of latent sexuality – physical punishment, low threshold for sexual arousal; heightened sensitivity on the background of excessive curiosity; stage of unstable sexuality – influence of a group, imprinting, puberty crisis, and identity crisis.

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7136.2018.7.24761

Abstract: The object of this research is the personality of a sexual violence victim that plays an essential role in the development of criminal motivation. The author of the article touches upon specific reasons and conditions that contribute to victimization, i.e. making a victim 'attractive' for a sexual abuser. Semerikova describes five criteria that describe the structure of victim personality. These include sociodemographic, socioprofessional and legal criteria that generally determine the conditions that increase victimity, and moral psychological and medical criteria determine the causes of aggression. The research is based on the psychological, psychiatric and criminological survey of 150 respondents who were the victims of sexual violence as well as on the analysis of the main theoretical concepts of Russian and foreign victimology. As a result of her research, Semerikova comes to the following conclusions: the victim and abuser have similar psychological features, inferiority and drive to self-destruction being the basic features; and the most common deviations of sexual violence victims are inherited submissiveness and masochism as a disorder of sexual preference. The results of the research can be used to develop sexual abuse preventive measures. 

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7136.2017.9.20249

Abstract: The research object is a negative social phenomenon of prostitution, which is considered as a background criminogenic phenomenon influencing the escalation of criminal sexual abuse. The author considers this phenomenon in two aspects: the victimological aspect (as long as persons providing sexual services in exchange for payment are more likely to become victims of sexual abuse than other categories) and the criminological aspect, i.e. as a negative influence of prostitution on its consumers. The purpose of the research is to define the sphere of negative influence of this social phenomenon on persons, providing sexual services, and their consumers. The empirical base of the research is the survey, which covered persons, engaged in prostitution and victims of sexual abuse, and consumers of sexual services. The author formulates victimological and criminological peculiarities. Victimological peculiarities: the main reason, which forces people into prostitution, is rather a high threshold of sexual acceptability and a distorted understanding of a norm of sexual behavior, than financial ill-being; a psychological profile of a prostitute is identical to that of a victim of sexual abuse. Criminological peculiarities: prostitution has almost no influence on a formed personality, but if a person is being formed, prostitution is a highly destructive phenomenon, which forms a destructive sexual scenario of consumption and fosters deepening and development of sexual preference disorder symptoms and other psychic disorders, which have impact on the sphere of volitional regulation of a sexual model of personal behavior. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.7.20115

Abstract: The present research article is devoted to pornography as a destructive social phenomenon contributing to the escalation of criminal sexual violence at the present stage of society development. The subject of the research is the concept of pornography, with the identification of significant key characteristics used to classify certain objects or phenomena as products of the porn industry, and the consequences of its consumption which are the effects of pornography on the development of personal sexuality and formation of motivation and choice of behavior in the process of fulfilling sexual needs. The empirical basis of this research article involves two independent studies: psychological research and psychiatric study of perpetrators of violent sexual crimes, and victims of sexual violence; the survey of citizens of the Russian Federation in the framework of study of the level of sexual culture in Russia at the present stage of society development.The scientific novelty of this study is caused by the fact that the author reveals the destructive aspects of the impact of pornography on personality. Semerikova proves that pornographic products firstly, contributes to the formation and escalation of personal aggression, simplifies the process of formation of motivation for sexual violence as the ideology of the subordinate position of women who are destined to serve sexual interests of men and satisfy their sexual needs; secondly, contributes to the development of dependence of sexual arousal on demonstration of pornographic materials without which sexual excitement becomes impossible, this causing the development of mental impotence, development of neuroses and other mental or psychic instability affecting, in its turn, the sphere of volitional regulation and the degree of control over sexual behavior.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0722.2016.6.19830

Abstract: The object of the present scientific research is sexual aggression as a destructive phenomenon of a modern society. The subject of the research is the theoretical approaches that explain the nature of sexual aggression, what causes it and conditions that contribute to the development of this negative social phenomenon as well as factors influencing the criminal orientation of a person and growth of the level of victimity in such criminal actions. The purpose of the research is to define psychological, medical and social aspects of personal destructuralization and to clarify the process of the development of sexual aggressive personality. The empirical basis of the resaerch is the psychological and psychiatric study of individuals who committed sexually aggressive actions. Having analyzed the main theories of sexual aggression, the author defines both pluses and  minuses thereof. Based on the theoretical research carried out as well as practical experience of working with individuals who have committed sexually aggressive actions, the author formulates her own theory of motivational aggression. According to the author, there are two models of sexual aggression, affect-charged and consumer, that explain two different patterns of behavior demonstrated by people inclined to sexual aggression.