Indicators Of Antisociality

2014 Mar 14

Online Child Pornography Offenders are Different: A Meta-analysis of the Characteristics of Online and Offline Sex Offenders Against Children

"Abstract

The current meta-analysis compared the characteristics of online child pornography-only offenders, typical (offline) sex offenders against children, and offenders with both child pornography and contact sex offences against children (mixed).

Based on 30 unique samples (comparison ns ranging from 98 to 2,702), the meta-analysis found key differences between groups. Offenders who committed contact sex offences were more likely to have access to children than those with only child pornography offences.

In contrast, offenders who used the internet to commit sexual offences had greater access to the internet than those with contact sex offenders.

Differences between the groups, however, were not limited to differential opportunities. Sex offenders against children and mixed offenders were found to score higher on indicators of antisociality than online child pornography offenders (CPOs).

CPOs were also more likely to have psychological barriers to sexual offending than sex offenders against children and mixed offenders (e.g., greater victim empathy).

Mixed offenders were found to be the most pedophilic, even more than CPOs.

The findings suggest that offenders who restricted their offending behavior to online child pornography offences were different from mixed offenders and offline sex offenders against children, and that mixed offenders were a particularly high risk group."

Babchishin KM, Hanson RK, Vanzuylen H., Arch Sex Behav. 2014 Mar 14 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24627189

Lacking In Empathy?

05/08/2013

Working at the IWF: "You build up a resilience...or you wouldn't be able to do the job"

"Duration: 05:27

Staff working at the Internet Watch Foundation describe to Nicky how they cope with the day to day job of removing child abuse [sic] published online. Due to the nature of the story, you could find hearing what these people deal with each day upsetting. You'll hear first from Sarah, who's a Technical Researcher at the IWF.

Available since: Today"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01dq9sr

What's good for the gooses and ganders ...

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Cambridge's Internet Watch Foundation tackling rising reports of online child sex abuse [sic]

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Cambridges-Internet-Watch-Foundation-tackling-rising-reports-of-online-child-sex-abuse-20130805101918.htm