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Forensic Psychology: Violence and Sex Crimes
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Sample of cases of violent, sex crime cases:
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People v Mejia, Los Angeles, California 1994
A Salvadorian male, charged charged with the crime of
torture, aggravated People v Boone
A 35 year old Caucasian married male was charged with forcible rape, burglary, People v DeHoyos, Orange County, California 1993 Mexican-American male charged with kidnapping, rape and murder of a nine year old Hispanic girl. A notorious case that got nationwide attention. Psychological, neurological, socio-cultural issues. A death penalty case, with two trials and multiple court testimonies. People v Mesa, Ventura California 1995
26 year old Mexican, DF, male charge with attempted murder in a salvage
attack on
another male, his friend. He was spending the evening with his friend,
drinking, using
some drugs, when his friend allegedly made a sexual advance
that enraged Mr. Mesa
and stabbed his friend repeatedly. The
defendant has been previously in prison were
he was subjected to several
homosexual rapes. The advances of his friend triggered
humiliating
memories, lost his control and attacked him brutally. Cultural issues. People v Chavez, Santa Ana, California 1996 Mexican male, from Chihuahua, shot his wife and himself , but both survived. He was charged with attempted murder . Psycho-social investigation, multiple interviews including the victim, his wife. He testimony was very helpful in determining mental status of the defendant.
People v Estrada. San Bernardino Co. California 1993 A teenager, Cuban " Marielito", mentally retarded, charged with kidnapping, gang raping of three white females. The youngest female, a teenager, was also murder by one of the three co-defendants. Psychological evaluation, testing, socio-cultural investigation. People v. Hernandez, Fresno County, California 1996 Mexican male charged with murder and rape of two women and rape and attempted murder of a third one. Psychological evaluation, socio-cultural investigation in Oaxaca, Mexico. Ritualistic-satanic violent sex rituals. People v Navarro, Ventura County, California 1990 A Mexican teenager allegedly sexually by an adult homosexual, was charged with murder of the alleged assailant . Cultural issues, Hispanic attitudes toward homosexuality. Socio-cultural investigation. People v. Sixto, Kern County, California 1991 A mentally retarded Mexican male spent ten years in death row in San Quentin for the kidnapping, sexual molestation and murder of a 5 year old boy. Original sentence overturned on appeal, second trial. Psychological evaluation, testing. Court testimony.
**Note: Several murder and sex cases
are listed in the Murder
Case Summary
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