The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending

Abstract

Background: There is an ongoing debate on whether consumers of child pornography pose a risk for hands-on sex offenses. Up until now, there have been very few studies which have analyzed the association between the consumption of child pornography and the subsequent perpetration of hands-on sex offenses. The aim of this study was to examine the recidivism rates for hands-on and hands-off sex offenses in a sample of child pornography users using a 6 year follow-up design.

Criminal History and Future Offending of Juveniles Convicted of the Possession of Child Pornography

“…Eke & Seto, 2011). Overall, these studies support the assumption that the possession of child pornography alone is not a sufficient risk factor for subsequent sexual contact offending or non-sexual violent offending (Endrass, et al, 2009). …”

“…Juvenile possessors of child pornography were found to be different from juvenile possessors of other pornography and comparable to adult child pornography offenders showing fewer criminal offenses and being more often of Swiss origin (Endrass, et al, 2009). In contrast, juvenile possessors of other illicit pornography resembled other juvenile delinquents who were frequently found to have a migration background and a criminal history of offending (Bessler et al, 2010).…”

“…3%, n=6,928; general recidivism rate: 36.2%, n=12,708). In contrast, findings on non-sexual recidivism in adult pornography possessors were more ambiguous: Some studies reported low rates of non-sexual recidivism (Endrass et al, 2009) whereas another study with larger follow-up time reported a higher non-sexual recidivism rate of 34% (e.g. Eke & Seto, 2011).…”

Robotic Rape and Robotic Child Sexual Abuse: Should They be Criminalised?

“…For example, several studies show that possession of child pornography is a minimal risk factor for future incidents of child sexual abuse. 78 And there are those, like Carissa Hessick, who have argued that the law is far too quick to assume a connection between child pornography possession and child sexual abuse. 79 effects) may be the most probable one.…”

Kinderpornografie

“…Durchschnittlich 22 % der Täter hatten Kinder, mit denen sie in einem gemeinsamen Haushalt lebten (Frei et al 2005;Laulik et al 2007;Endrass et al 2009). Eine Metaanalyse zeigte, dass sowohl bei Hands-off-wie auch bei Hands-on-Tätern eigener sexueller Missbrauch in der Vorgeschichte häufiger ist als in der Allgemeinbevölkerung ).…”