'Hunting a 'charming' serial rapist???'

Now what use psychology without predictive ability ... so this becomes very interesting, it is like 'hanging out your dirty washing (academic learning) for all the world to see.'
But then again, only if the information is specific and says more than Mr Joe Average could come up with ... and they have. Mr Joe Average would never come up with this sort of stuff ...


He is thought to be European and aged 18 to 40. A leading criminal profiler says the rapist is "highly likely" to be married with children and "charming", "trustworthy" and "believable"... (University of Auckland psychologist Dr Ian Lambie).
So yes, he succcessfully gets them in to his car, which means he has pretty good verbal skills .. or sufficient to effect his intentions at the time he does this. 'Married' is but only one way by which sexual or other proclivity can be hidden, but a lack of previous sexual conviction? Always there is previous sexual behaviour approximating the use of excess force and always many people are aware of this.
"They like to fool their victims and ensure they aren't caught. They experience some sexual satisfaction but the actual concept [of rape] also excites them."
So it's like a game, and a game where the fantasy or (even more intellectually) the concept, is greater than the act ... oh yes.

The police perspective is also interesting ... not altogether different from Lambie's, a bit of echolalia perhaps... projection with a Women's Refuge/feminist overlay ...

Unit head, Sergeant Brett Pakenham, said, ... Rape is "seldom about sex", he says, but usually about power.Some serial offenders are driven by a fantasy which the reality never lives up to. They continue to offend in an attempt to realise that fantasy. Others rape to release anger and while that anger may be released in the short term, when the anger builds up again they will look for another victim."

Rape is by definition always to do with sex, in fact sex realised through power, non consensual imposed suppression of dissension sex. But 'power, fantasy and anger?' ... not sex?

And if 'reality never lives up to the fantasy,' then one would assume it to become self-limiting .. oh, unless of course he doesn't have a partner, or unless this is previously well established behaviour and re emerges periodically ... like rather than reoffend again presently he may well do the four to seven year hibernation that is quite common with serious sexual offenders when the probability of impending consequences become considerably greater than the pleasure from the rape.

My dad always used to say a 'standing prick has no conscience.' It sort of said it all really, and far more succinctly and realistically than our experts and law enforcers seem to be able to ... not withstanding that frequently the level of physiological arousal is such that it is this that drives the behaviour, not the erection per se .. too much blood flow to the peripheral muscles ... but that is academic really.

Profile of a rapist
* Is convicted of any criminal offence at the average age of 16 and convicted for the crime of rape at the average age of 24
* 90 per cent of rapists have a conviction for house burglary before committing their first rape
* At the time of being arrested for a series of rapes the offender is unlikely to have a previous rape or sexual-related conviction.
* He is also likely to continue offending until he is apprehended.
* Victims are usually always strangers, identified by prowling activity.