Is paraphilic coercion a different construct from sadism or the lower end of an agonistic continuum?

Nicholas Longpré, Judith E. Sims-Knight, Craig Neumann, Jean-Pierre Guay and Raymond A. Knight

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020, vol. 71, issue C

Abstract: It has been hypothesized that paraphilic coercive disorder (PCD) constitutes a distinct preference for coercion that can be discriminated from a preference for sadism. Despite the repeated rejections of PCD as an acceptable diagnosis, it continues to be used. In 2013 Knight and colleagues reviewed the evidence that had been proffered to support the admission of PCD to the DSM-5 as a distinct diagnosis and proposed an alternative model that considers PCD and sadism as levels on a single dimension, called the Agonistic Continuum. They provided factor analytic data to support their argument for the unidimensionality of the proposed continuum, taxometrics to explore whether the construct was distributed categorically, and Item Response Theory to explore the ordinal structure of the dimension.

Keywords: Agonistic continuum; Paraphilic coercive disorder; Sexual sadism; Sexual homicide; DSM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101743

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