In this June 2020 article published in The International Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Joanna Bourke explores how nineteenth-century forensic psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s understanding of the ‘degenerative’ sadist changed over the last century, as well as the shift in popular and psychiatric ideas of sadism. Bourke asks why it quickly became a popular term in society and why it needed to be coined in the first place.
Joanna Bourke
‘Sadism: a history of non-consensual sexual cruelty’
The International Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, Volume 2, Number 1 (June 2020), pp. 1-12.
https://doi.org/10.33212/ijfp.v2n1.2020.1
Published: 01 June 2020