Podcast on Crimes Against Women
The Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) is thrilled the announce the Podcast on Crimes Against Women (PCAW). Continuing with our fourth season, the PCAW releases new episodes every Monday. The PCAW serves as an extension of the information and topics presented at the annual Conference, providing in-depth dialogue, fresh perspectives, and relevant updates by experts in the fields of victim advocacy, criminal justice, medicine, and more. This podcast’s format hopes to create a space for topical conversations aimed to engage and educate community members on the issue of violence against women, how it impacts our daily lives, and how we can work together to create lasting cultural and systemic change.
Podcast on Crimes Against Women
Chasing Fantasy: Exploring the Mind of Sexual Deviant Killers and Their Lust for Violence
Episode two of the third season of the Podcast on Crimes Against Women continues our multi-episode series delving into the criminology of offenders. The second episode in this series welcomes author, investigator, psychologist, and president and founder of the LJS Training and Consulting Group, Dr. Lawrence Simon. For over a decade, Dr. Simon has interviewed and conducted research on hundreds of cold-blooded killers and violent sex offenders within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and both the Alabama and Florida Department of Corrections. His most recent research endeavor has involved investigating psychological motivations of serial sexual homicide.
On this episode, Dr. Simon explores the mind of the sexual deviant killer. Dr. Simon goes on to break down the differences between sexual deviant killers vs. other criminals and the importance of this distinction, visits the factors that drive their crimes to be sexually motivated, and answers the question: "Can sexual deviant killers be rehabilitated?" Dr. Simon then goes on to discuss nature vs. nurture in sexual deviant killers, shares examples of infamous sexual deviant killers throughout recent history, and examines his own findings while interviewing inmates on Florida's death row for his books Murder by Numbers and Mortal Desire.