Sexual Homicide

To understand sexual homicide has five parts: 
1. The murderer's social environment
2. childhood and teenage events
3. responses to those events
4. Actions toward others
5. The killer's reactions to his murders. 
These points deal mostly with psychosocial and cognitive factors and does not cover neurology or genetic factors.

The way that the quality of family and social interactions with the child are important factors in the child's development. The attachment of the child to parents and others is important in how the child as an adult relates to others and how he values other members of society.

In murderers this social bonding fails. The child's caregivers either ignore, rationalize, or normalize various behaviors in the developing child, or through their own problems, support the child's developing distortions and projections. The people who are important to the child do not provide nurturing and protection; rather, they impose adult expectations on the child.

There are three factors that contribute to the formative events:
1. The first is trauma, in the form of physical or sexual abuse.
2.Second, is developmental failure. For whatever reason the child doesn't attach to his adult caregiver.
3. Third, interpersonal failure, the adult caregiver doesn't serve as a role model.