Thirteen men convicted of downloading child pornography were interviewed with a view to understanding how these men talked about the photographs and the function such talk played in their accounts. The interviews were informed by earlier work with defended subjects and were analyzed within a discursive framework. Quotations are used from the interviews to illustrate the analysis. Six principal discourses emerged within these accounts in relation to child pornography: sexual arousal; as collectibles; facilitating social relationships; as a way of avoiding real life; as therapy; and in relation to the Internet. These are discussed in the context of previous research. The analysis illustrates the important role that the Internet plays in increasing sexual arousal to child pornography and highlights individual differences in whether this serves as a substitute or as a blueprint for contact offenses. It also draws our attention to the important role that community plays in the Internet and how collecting facilitates the objecti®cation of children and increases the likelihood that in the quest for new images children

Self-poisoning patients (n = 40) were compared with psychiatric patients (n = 40) and nonpatient controls (n = 20) on measures of interpersonal problem-solving skills and locus of control in an effort to determine the importance of these cognitive and personality variables in self-poisoning behavior. The psychiatric and self-poisoning groups showed deficits on measures assessing interpersonal problem solving when compared with nonpatient controls. The self-poisoning group performed below the level of the psychiatric patients on all except one test, on which they performed at the level of the psychiatric group. Locus of control did not differentiate self-poisoning patients from nonpatient controls, and it was concluded that this variable is not an important factor in self-poisoning behavior.

Reprints available directly fmm the pblisba photocopying permitted by license only 0 ZOO0 OPA (Overrcas Publirbar hscciation) N. V. Publirbcd by licmre undu rhe H.rwood Audcmic Publirbar imprint. panofIhGordonmdBdPublilhingGmup. R i n d in Malaysia.Ethnomethodologists in the field of offender-based research have recently criticiscd the earlier use of pris~n-based samples in research on residential burglary. 'Ibey claim t h e ! interviewing burglars in their naturnl envinmmcnt has produced findings of grrater validity and reliability. By describing further analysis of data from earlier expaimntal research on burglars in prison. and drawing on fmdings from other work on residential burglary, this adcle sets out to highlight the striking similarity between findings from interview. experimental and ehogmphic studies in this 1~. Far from discounting earlier cxperimntal and interview studies. tbe recent ethnographic works have served to build on and complelncnt earlier work. The value of using a variety of methods in offender-based remuch is then discussed.The past ten to fifteen years has Seen a number of notable offender-based works on residential burglary both here and in the United States. The two most recent works focusing on the criminal event (Cromwell, Olson and Avary, 1991;Wright and Decker, 1994) have represented an interesting shift in methodology. Cromwell et al. (1991). moved away from the use of prison-based samples. After lengthy interviews with thirty active, persistent burglars in Texas, researchers took them back to the sites of their previous burglaries to discuss how the crime was perpetrated and the vulnerability of the target. Participants visited their own crime sites and those of other members of the sample to assess target vulnerability. Their responses were compared with a group of students to highlight the ' burglars' expertise. Wright and Decker (1994) followed with a similar * Corrtsponding author. 45 Downloaded by [Korea University] at 18:09 02 January 2015 46 C. NEE AND M. TAYMR ethnographically-bad methodology, this time interviewing 105 active burglars 'on the streets' in St Louis, Missouri.The findings from these recent works were markedly sifnilar to the earlier empirical work conducted on this side of the Atlantic (Maguire and Bennett, 1982; Bennett and Wright, 1984;Nee and Taylor, 1988;Taylor and Nee, 1988). Despite this similarity, the fact that the earlier British and Irish studies were canied out on incarcerated burglars was heavily criticised by the authors of both American studies on the grounds that prisonbased samples are a far less valid source of data than active burglars at large. This paper aims to show that these criticisms an largely overstated and that despite the considerable cultural divide (including greater reported drug dependence in the US samples) the later studies are simply building on the earlier interview and experimental work.We feel t h m is a logical progression between the earlier British andIrish prison-based studies and the later US ethnomethodologic...

Agencies working with sex offenders are starting to see the emergence of people with a sexual interest in children who meet some of their needs through the use of child pornography, or the seduction of children, through the Internet. While CBT models dominate our understanding of sex offenders, there has been little research into the role that such new technologies may play in offending behavior. Data from the COPINE project has been used to generate a model of such offending behavior that emphasizes the role of cognitions in both the etiology, engagement with and problematic use of the Internet for those with a sexual interest in children. Such a model seeks to incorporate contemporary thinking about the role of cognitions in Pathological Internet Use, but applies this from a nonpathological perspective. This model is a first step towards providing a conceptual framework for such offending that will help inform both assessment and therapy.

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