Gaze patterns to child figures reflect deviant sexual preference in child sex offenders—a first glance

Hall, Charlotte L; Hogue, Todd; Guo, Kun

doi:10.1080/13552600.2014.931475

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“…The study of Hall et al. [ 47 ] compared two groups: 13 child sexual offenders and 13 non-offenders’ subjects. Sexual offences ranged from downloading child pornography pictures to sexual intercourses.…”

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“…In the study of Hall et al. [ 47 ], images from Internet fashion catalogues were used. Figures were plain clothed and with neutral or low intensity happy facial expressions.…”

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“…One on the most important difference about samples used, is that some studies used paedophiles subjects whereas, in Hall et al. [ 47 ] study, they used child sexual offenders, and we do not know if they suffer of paraphilic disorder. Protocols of the studies are summarized in Table 1 .…”

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“…In the study of Hall et al. [ 47 ], child sexual offenders and non-offenders viewed adult stimulus without significant differences. With child pictures, child sexual offenders viewed more often toward the upper body of the female child figure than male child figure ( P = 0.04).…”

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“…For the moment, cut offs of these indexes does not seem to be clinically relevant. The sixth study analysed number of fixations and there are no significant differences between the two groups on child pictures [ 47 ]. The most relevant results are summarized in Table 1 .…”

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Eye tracking and child sexual offenders: a systematic review

Godet

Niveau

2021

Forensic Sciences Research

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Eye tracking is used in sexology to identify attractiveness and sexual desire indirectly. This systematic review summarizes results of works that have used eye tracking to analyse paedophilic interest in order to investigate its potential as a useful forensic tool. Six studies met the inclusion criteria. Five of them concerned a large study project and used approximatively the same sample of paedophiles (inpatients), forensic patients (without a sexual interest in children) and healthy controls to make comparisons between the three groups. One study added 11 self-declared paedophiles (outpatients) for a comparison between inpatient paedophiles, outpatient paedophiles and controls (healthy and forensic inpatients). One study compared a group of child sexual offenders with non-offenders. All studies used static pictures of male and female subjects at different pubertal stages. Some studies divided every picture into a different area of interest. Dependent variables used are fixation latency (early attention) and relative fixation time, (later attention). Each study identified significant differences between the paedophile group versus other groups: shorter fixation latency on child pictures, longer fixation time on child pictures and number of fixation most important on child pictures. Two scores (age preference index and attentional control index) showed hight and/or moderate sensitivity and specificity. Although the results suggest the eye tracking can discriminate between paedophile interest and non-paedophile interest, there are too few studies on this specific topic and further research is needed with larger and different sample, carried out by different research teams. If these findings were confirmed, it remains unclear as to their impact in a forensic context when presented openly in Court.

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“…In the study of Hall et al. [ 47 ], images from Internet fashion catalogues were used. Figures were plain clothed and with neutral or low intensity happy facial expressions.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eye tracking and child sexual offenders: a systematic review

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2021

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Eye‐Tracking and Assessing Sexual Interest in Forensic Contexts

Hogue

Wesson

Perkins

2016

The Wiley Handbook on the Theories, Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offending

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Over the past 30 years, within forensic contexts there has been increasing interest in the use of assessments based on behavioural and implicit assessment processes. Eye‐tracking, the ability to identify and track where an individual is looking, has increasingly been used to infer underlying cognitive processes related to observed behaviour. Within forensic contexts, the ability to monitor where an individual is looking, and by implication what they are interested in, is increasingly being seen as one potential way to gain objective information about offender cognitions. Eye‐tracking has been used to study general factors related to sexual interest within non‐offending samples and is increasingly being used to assess inappropriate or deviant sexual interest in offending populations. This chapter overviews the concept of eye‐tracking as a methodology, describes a number of different areas where it has been used, and then discusses in more detail how eye‐tracking is currently being used to assess normal and deviant sexual interest.

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