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


q Motivation

§ Insecure

§ To possess, not harm

§ Feels inadequacy with women – much self-doubt

§ Restore self-confidence

§ Confirmation of manhood – ensure she enjoyed it

§ Often done in conjunction with another crime


q The Attack

§ Method of Approach

· Blitz

· Peeping Tom’s (to pre-select victim)

§ Method of Attack

· Mainly verbal

· Threat of weapon, but often without having one, and any use of weapon will be one of opportunity

· 7-15 day cycle (biological clock)


q Behavior

§ Verbal

· Often socially awkward

· Reassures victim’s safety

· Will often attempt to instigate the victim to talk dirty to him, but he will rarely speak obscenely

· Complimentary

· Apologetic/expression of guilt

o “I won’t hurt you, I just want sex”

o “I want you to enjoy this, I’m sorry, I want anal sex, grab the lubricant because I don’t want to hurt you too much”

o “I’m sorry I don’t know why but I had to do this, tell me if I hurt you but do as I say because if you don’t it might hurt”

o “If you cooperate I will be your boyfriend, you are beautiful”

§ Sexual

· Attempts foreplay

· Involves victim in sexual activity

· Generally does not engage in alternate sexual practices, and if does, apologize to victim

· Often asks the victim to undress herself, like in a relationship

· Low aggression exhibited

· Unselfish

§ Physical

· Does not cause unnecessary harm

· Relies on threat of weapon for compliance

§ Modus Operandi (MO)

· Non-lethal

· Unorganized

· Selects victim in advance

· Victim in close proximity of rapist

· Attack for short period of time; longer with more compliance

§ Signature

· Contacts victim post attack

· Records attack

· Takes personal items from victim

· 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

· Menial occupation; steady worker

· May be a transvestite, voyeuristic, exhibitionist, fetishist

· Interested in pornography

· Often unathletic and socially awkward


q Methods of Avoidance

§ Will tend to terminate the rape if victim resists

§ Most likely of all rapists to be dissuaded if scream, cry, plead, or fight

§ Could be dealing with power assertive rapist starting off with softer approach – do not want to upset that rapist type

§ Start off with nonviolent tactics – crying, pleading, praying aloud – if he becomes verbally abusive, you do not have a power reassurance rapist

§ If you can attack his conscience, or his weak point, the better luck for avoiding the rape

§ Do not attempt to “talk him out of it” – he will interpret that as your enjoying it, like in a relationship – you must use more angry and shocking tactics

§ With this type of rapist, fight; although he will occasionally have a weapon, it is generally an empty threat and he will not want to deal with an overly resistant victim

Power Assertive (a.k.a. entitlement, exploitative, can be a “date rapist”)


q 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


q The Attack

§ Method of Approach

· Con

· Blitz

§ Method of Attack

· Mainly verbal threats

· Control, mastery, humiliation

· Force with a weapon, but often only to ensure cooperation

· 20–25-day cycle


q Behavior

§ Verbal

· Often socially competent

· Desires little victim interaction; rapist’s pleasure in primary

· Stereotypically known as “macho”

· Use of obscene language

· Explicit sexually; demanding

o “I want you on top, play with yourself”

o “I can give you the wildest sex of your life”

o “You have sex written all over your face”

§ Sexual

· Goal is capture, conquer, and control

· Often repeatedly attacks single victim

· Sexually punishes by pulling, pinching, biting

· Bondage often employed

· Similar with anger retaliatory – goal is to humiliate victim

· Selfish

§ Physical

· Moderate to high aggression exhibited

· Rips clothing in order to intimidate

· Use of force to gain compliance, especially with resistance

§ MO

· 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 location

§ Signature

· Victim held captive during rape

· Risky – zero respect

· Desire to control sexually

· 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)

· Frequents single bars

· Image conscious

· Masculine type job – construction, police officer

· Often athletic


q Methods of Avoidance

§ Begging and crying ineffectual

§ If you’re going to resist, scream and fight violently, but realize that when you do so, they will get more and more angry

§ The rapist’s manhood is in question and to be aggressive to him is showing that is isn’t coming off as strong or manly enough

§ Still, compared with other rapist types (because he is not an anger rapist) trying to escape might be worth it as the punishment if caught is not generally death

§ Keep in mind that his goal is to humiliate, not to torture

§ You must be smart if you try to escape

§ If you choose to not try to escape, try to anger him as little as possible to increase your chance of survival

Anger Retaliatory (a.k.a. displaced anger)


o Motivation

§ Rage towards one person/punish women expressing his rage

§ Often misdirected impulses of hatred toward random victim

§ Sometimes in name of politics or religion, but in general it’s a crusade to hurt women who have hurt him

§ Believes self-importance is most important


o The Attack

§ Method of Approach

· Blitz

§ Method of Attack

· Brutal and violent initially, using sex as the weapon

· Weapon (e.g., explosives)

· 6 months–year cycle


o Behavior

§ Verbal

· Selfish

· Not negotiable

· Blames victim for their unfortunate life

· Extremely angry; displaces anger onto victim

· Obscene language

o “This is what is going to happen if you ever think about leaving me”

o “I will kill your new boyfriend”

o “Where is your boyfriend now?”

§ Sexual

· No foreplay

· Selfish

· Violent – extension of physical attack

· Forces acts to humiliate victim – “This rapist may rape his victim anally and then force her to perform oral sex on him immediately afterward. Following oral sex, he may ejaculate on her face in a further attempt to degrade her”

§ Physical

· Rips clothing

· Prepares for the rape (dressing in military fatigues, police uniform)

· Excessive brutality – much injury

§ MO

· Often lethal

· 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

§ Signature

· Offender sees their own life as a message to others

· 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

§ Personal Information

· 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

· Athletic and masculine self-image


o Methods of Avoidance

§ Any resistance may enrage him

§ Not looking to kill you, but the beating could be fatal – more so than either of the power rapists

§ Do not challenge or enrage – try to escape or incapacitate rapist

§ If not trying to escape, try to limit the level of violence

§ Pick a path and stick with it – either try to outsmart the rapist or be highly compliant. The reasoning for this is that that the rapist is of such a violent nature and has a low frequency of between crimes, so the anger he possesses resembles someone else to him and tends to be highly volatile. A victim must choose her path cautiously and must not act on a whim because he will have zero tolerance for erratic behavior.

Anger Excitation (a.k.a. sadistic)


o 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


o The Attack

§ Method of Approach

· Con

§ Method of Attack

· Physical force

· Weapons (e.g., rape kit)

· Difficult to predict, but those with a pattern show a 30-day cycle


o Behavior

§ Verbal

· 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

o “Keep your voice down or I will kill you”

o “You’re going to earn it you bitch, stop your whining, if you don’t shut up I’ve got a knife”

o “Shut up bitch, don’t move and it will not hurt”

o “Do you like that, bitch?”

§ Sexual

· Owns extensive pornography collection, typically involving bondage

· Excited by victim’s emotional/physical pain

· Rehearses, possibly with compliant victim

· Bondage usage; bizarre ritualistic quality

· Insertion of objects into vagina/penis/anus, often no usage of perpetrator’s digit; biting – whatever will cause the most pain

· Rough anal sex followed by oral sex is common

· Records attack – videos, photographs, journals

· Souvenirs of types – panties, jewelry

· Selfish

§ Physical

· Tie, gag, blindfold – less to control but to terrify

· Brutal and prolonged pain over long period of time

· Fetishes – body parts mutilated (e.g., necrophilia)

· Injury increases with anger

§ MO

· Lethal

· Organized

· 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 of victim (this is the offender type most likely to hide the victim’s body)

§ Signature

· Special instruments to attack

· Sexual aspect predominant – eroticized sex and violence

· 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



o Methods of Avoidance

§ Most criminally sophisticated

§ Escape or resistance is generally out of question

§ If tied up, you will have to attempt to match wits with the rapist and attempt to trick him to untie you to have some chance of escape

§ Injury increases with his heightened anger, so you must resist cleverly.

§ If you are lucky enough to not be unconscious from the start, you must attempt anything to try to avoid his anger

§ Murder is generally the end result – you must do what you can to escape somehow. Do not give in.