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online sex offense

3. Research on CP Recidivism

This resource compiles research on later offending among people convicted of child pornography offenses, including follow-up studies, risk assessment research, and comparisons with contact offenders. The studies report varied outcomes across samples and follow-up periods, with prior offending history and age among the factors associated with later offenses, and several reviews describe comparatively low rates of new contact sexual offenses in online-offender samples.

8. Social Connections and Internet Compulsions

This article reviews research linking social connection and problematic internet use, with attention to online relationships, loneliness, and social anxiety. The cited studies associate problematic use with seeking new contacts or emotional support online and preferring online interaction, while also discussing social deficits, mood regulation, and findings concerning adolescents.

7. ATSA Statement regarding Online Offenders

The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers’ 2010 statement reviews forms of internet-facilitated sexual offending and the evidence available for assessing risk and planning supervision. It discusses child pornography offenses, online solicitation, differences reported between online and contact offenders, limits in risk measures for people without contact-offense histories, and the need to tailor intervention to an individual’s assessed risk.

2. Assessment Tools for Internet Compulsions

This resource presents screening tools for assessing problematic internet use and online sexual behavior. It describes the Internet Addiction Test, the revised Internet Sex Screening Test, and the Cybersex Addiction Screening Test, with sample questions addressing preoccupation, secrecy, interference with daily life, and difficulty limiting use.

Arousal Habituation

This compilation presents the arousal-habituation theory and reviews research on responses to repeated and novel sexual stimuli. The cited laboratory studies generally report declining subjective or physiological arousal with repeated familiar material and renewed responses to novel stimuli in men and women, while the review notes differences across methods and findings.

2. Online versus Contact Offense

This research summary compares characteristics reported for online child pornography or solicitation offenders and contact sexual offenders. Across the studies it reviews, the groups differ on average in age, criminal history, sexual interests, and antisocial traits, while findings vary across measures and do not establish that every individual in a group shares those characteristics.

ONLINE OFFENSE: Conviction Rates

A US Justice Department bulletin reports federal prosecution outcomes for child sex exploitation offenses referred in 2006, including child pornography, sex transportation, and sex abuse cases. It records conviction rates of 95%, 92%, and 86%, respectively, among defendants in those offense categories, and compares those figures with 1996 data.

SEX OFFENSE: Butner Study Critique

The Butner study and its later critique concern reported rates of contact sexual offending among people convicted of child pornography offenses. The source compares the original and Redux studies, reviews methodological and judicial criticisms, and describes the authors’ view that the relationship between online and offline offending needs further empirical study.