Some individuals with paraphilias become more violent, some do not. Determining who is at risk to progress to more violence when they act out their paraphilic urges is critical to both treatment and criminal justice professionals. Dr. Meloy will explore this question in detail by first briefly reviewing the paraphilias, then focusing upon existing research from a variety of areas--rape, fetish burglary, sexually deviant fantasy, psychopathy, compulsion, sadism, child pornography, child abduction, predatory aggression, and sexualized hostility--to construct a coherent theory for progression to greater violence among paraphilic offenders. The theory will be illustrated by the case of People v. Wayne Adam Ford, a serial murderer with a variety of paraphilias whose case was tried in San Bernardino County in 2006, and during which Dr. Meloy testified as an expert witness.
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Presented by
Reid Meloy, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.
 Dr. Reid Meloy is a diplomate in forensic psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and consults on criminal and civil cases throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, School of Medicine; an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law; and a faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is past president of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. He has received numerous awards from various professional organizations and is president of Forensis, Inc., a non profit, public benefit corporation devoted to forensic psychiatric and psychological research (www.forensis.org). Dr. Meloy has authored or co-authored over one hundred ninety papers published in peer-reviewed psychiatric and psychological journals, and has authored, co-authored or edited ten books. His first book, The Psychopathic Mind (Aronson, 1988), was an integration of the biological and psychodynamic understanding of psychopathy, His most recent edited book, Stalking, Threatening and Attacking Public Figures (Oxford University Press, 2008) has received wide acclaim, and led to a commissioned study for the National Academy of Sciences on threats toward public figures. Dr. Stephen White and he created the WAVR-21 (Specialized Training Services, 2008), the first scientifically based structured professional judgment instrument for workplace violence assessment. Dr. Meloy is also a consultant to the counterintelligence division of the FBI and regularly teaches at the Behavioral Analysis Units in Quantico. He is a member of the Fixated Research Group for the United Kingdom’s Home Office concerning threats to the Royal Family and British political figures, and also teaches for the Netherlands National Police. He has been a technical consultant to the television program CSI since its inception in 2001.
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