Overview

How do Internet Only CSAM Offenders (Child Sexual Abuse Material) differ from non-offenders and offenders with a contact offenses?

Summary

While this is an older article (2012), it needs to be included here. It is an oft-cited study that articulates both the psychological and demographic characteristics of men who have been convicted of possessing child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). 

It has provided a great deal of insight into the perpetrators of this type of crime.

Internet Only CSAM Offenders: The Study

The subjects were all men in federal custody with a history of a contact or a CSAM offense. 

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Overview

A Modern Explanation for Why People Offend.

Summary

For years the main stay reasoning for why individuals commit sex crimes referred to two pathways to sexual offending.  One being an antisocial pathway and one a deviant pathway.  The antisocial pathway would be for those who fit the DSM-V criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder and the Deviant pathway would be for those who fit a DSM-V diagnosis such as Pedophilic Disorder, Exhibitionism, etc.  Though this model has been used for years, it does not necessarily fit well with newer cyber based sex crimes. 

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