Sexual Murderers

Jean Proulx is Professor and Director of the School of Criminology
at the University of Montreal, and Researcher at the International
centre of Comparative Criminology of that university. His main
research interests are personality profiles, sexual preferences,
treatment issues, and recidivism risk factors among sexual murders,
rapists, child molesters and incest offenders. Over the last twenty
years, he has published four books and more than 100 book chapters
or refereed articles, in French and English. Since 1989, he has
been active, both as Researcher and Clinical Psychologist, in
treatment programmes for sex offenders at the Philippe-Pinel
Institute, a maximum-security psychiatric institution.

Eric Beauregard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Criminology at the University of South Florida. his PhD
dissertation, completed at the School of Criminology, University of
Montreal, was on the hunting patterns of serial sex offenders.
Before joining USF in 2005, Dr. Beauregard worked as a clinical
criminologist for Correctional Service Canada, where he was
responsible for the phallometric and criminological assessment of
sex offenders. He evaluated more than 1200 different sex offenders
either during their admission process or before their release. He
has published a number of studies on the offending process of
sexual offenders, criminal profiling, and sexual preferences of sex
offenders.

Maurice Cusson is Professor at the School of Criminology a t the
University of Montreal and Researcher at the International centre
of comparative Criminology at that university. Over the last thirty
years, he has written ten books and more than 50 book chapters or
refereed articles, in both French and English. he has received four
prizes for his books, including two from the Academie des Sciences
Morales and Politiques de I'Institut de France. His main research
interests are homicide, crime prevention, the rational-choice
perspective in criminology, and national security.

Alexandre Nicole is a clinical criminologist for the sex
offender treatment programme at the Philippe-Pinel Institute of
Montreal, a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. the institute id
affiliated to the University of Montreal and M. Nicole also
collaborates to various research projects related to sexual
offending.