From child pornography offending to child sexual abuse: A review of child pornography offender characteristics and risks for cross-over

Being Sexually Attracted to Minors: Sexual Development, Coping With Forbidden Feelings, and Relieving Sexual Arousal in Self-Identified Pedophiles

“…Furthermore, we aimed to develop an interview that could fill some of the gaps in previous literature on the association between pedophilia and (child pornography) offending (see Houtepen et al, 2014). We conducted these interviews in order to get a fuller understanding of what is currently known about pedophiles in the forensic field.…”

“…In a recent review on child pornography offending (Houtepen, Sijtsema, & Bogaerts, 2014), it was proposed that risk factors related to child pornography offending can be viewed along the lines of two continua: (1) features related to criminal behavior; and (2) sexual deviance or fantasy. Furthermore, Schmidt, Gykiere, Vanhoeck, Mann, and Banse (2014) showed that different types of child sexual abusers (i.e., intrafamilial child sexual abusers, extrafamilial child sexual abusers, and child pornography offenders) differ in their degree of sexual deviant interests.…”

“…Moreover, pedophiles often acknowledge having romantic and loving feelings for children in addition to having desires Downloaded by [Central Michigan University] at 09:29 11 October 2015 3 to engage in sexual contact (Seto, 2012). Therefore, it has been suggested that some pedophilic child pornography offenders are less likely to engage in child sexual contact offenses when they are directly (i.e., instead of indirectly, via watching child pornography) responsible for the abuse (Houtepen et al, 2014).…”

De la pornographie légale à l’agression sexuelle

“…Les salons de clavardage permettent aux utilisateurs d'entrer directement en contact les uns avec les autres pour effectuer leurs échanges de contenus pédopornographiques (Forde et Patterson, 1998 ;Fortin et Lapointe, 2002). Les comportements des autres internautes permettent d'ailleurs aux cyberdélinquants de justifier leurs propres activités illicites sur Internet (Houtepen, Sijtsema et Bogaerts, 2014). En 1997, les chercheurs du projet COPINE ont étudié plusieurs de ces salons de clavardage (Taylor et Quayle, 2003).…”

The Role of Sexual Images in Online and Offline Sexual Behaviour With Minors

“…This changed when much of this content was moved online and Internet access increased and became less expensive [3]. The last twenty years has been marked by increasing concerns about the proliferation of indecent sexual images of children [4], the people who access, create and share them [5], and how they might be used in relation to online and offline sexual behaviour with minors [6]. It is also apparent that these images reflect all stages of sexual development, as international law defines the age of a child as up to 18 years for the purposes of child pornography [7].…”