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

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

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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.

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  • Longpré, Nicholas & Sims-Knight, Judith E. & Neumann, Craig & Guay, Jean-Pierre & Knight, Raymond A., 2020. "Is paraphilic coercion a different construct from sadism or the lower end of an agonistic continuum?," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:71:y:2020:i:c:s0047235220302373
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101743
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    1. Stefanska, Ewa B. & Longpré, Nicholas & Bloomfield, Sinead & Perkins, Derek & Carter, Adam J., 2020. "Untangling sexual homicide: A proposal for a new classification of sexually motivated killings," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).
    2. Knight, Raymond A. & Sims-Knight, Judith & Guay, Jean-Pierre, 2013. "Is a separate diagnostic category defensible for paraphilic coercion?," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 41(2), pages 90-99.
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    1. Longpré, Nicholas & Galiano, Courtney Burdis & Guay, Jean-Pierre, 2022. "The impact of childhood trauma, personality, and sexuality on the development of paraphilias," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).

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