Background Researchers have studied the online sexual grooming of minors extensively
since the early 2000s. However, the grooming process is neither new nor restricted to digital …

This article reviews the extant literature regarding pornography's influence on antisocial
attitudes, sexual arousal, and sexually aggressive behavior in both noncriminal and criminal …

This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising
about sexual offending. It presents the key ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and …

Child pornography, particularly that available via the Internet, has become a cause of huge
social concern in recent years. This book examines the reality behind the often hysterical …

This paper describes the construction and testing of a framework for dynamic risk
assessment. A review of previous studies identified 4 domains into which dynamic risk …

Thirteen men convicted of downloading child pornography were interviewed with a view to
understanding how these men talked about the photographs and the function such talk …

This article is the first to integrate the vast research literatures on non-consenting adult and
on child pornography (also a form of non-consenting pornography) by using the framework …

High-risk sexual offenders are a complex and heterogeneous group of offenders about
whom researchers, clinicians, and law enforcement agencies still know relatively little. In …

This project was supported by cooperative agreement# 2004-CK-WX-K002 by the US
Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). The …

Abstract Treatment of sexual offenders has evolved substantially over the years; various
theoretical and practice models of treatment been developed, modified, refined, and …