Sexual Murderers

Jean Proulx is Professor and Director of the School of Criminologyat the University of Montreal, and Researcher at the Internationalcentre of Comparative Criminology of that university. His mainresearch interests are personality profiles, sexual preferences,treatment issues, and recidivism risk factors among sexual murders,rapists, child molesters and incest offenders. Over the last twentyyears, he has published four books and more than 100 book chaptersor refereed articles, in French and English. Since 1989, he hasbeen active, both as Researcher and Clinical Psychologist, intreatment programmes for sex offenders at the Philippe-PinelInstitute, a maximum-security psychiatric institution. Eric Beauregard is an Assistant Professor in the Department ofCriminology at the University of South Florida. his PhDdissertation, completed at the School of Criminology, University ofMontreal, was on the hunting patterns of serial sex offenders.Before joining USF in 2005, Dr. Beauregard worked as a clinicalcriminologist for Correctional Service Canada, where he wasresponsible for the phallometric and criminological assessment ofsex offenders. He evaluated more than 1200 different sex offenderseither during their admission process or before their release. Hehas published a number of studies on the offending process ofsexual offenders, criminal profiling, and sexual preferences of sexoffenders. Maurice Cusson is Professor at the School of Criminology a t theUniversity of Montreal and Researcher at the International centreof comparative Criminology at that university. Over the last thirtyyears, he has written ten books and more than 50 book chapters orrefereed articles, in both French and English. he has received fourprizes for his books, including two from the Academie des SciencesMorales and Politiques de I'Institut de France. His main researchinterests are homicide, crime prevention, the rational-choiceperspective in criminology, and national security. Alexandre Nicole is a clinical criminologist for the sexoffender treatment programme at the Philippe-Pinel Institute ofMontreal, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. the institute idaffiliated to the University of Montreal and M. Nicole alsocollaborates to various research projects related to sexualoffending.