A meta-analysis of 46 published studies was undertaken to determine the effects of pornography (including but not limited to child pornography) on sexual deviancy, sexual perpetration, attitudes regarding intimate relationships, and attitudes regarding the rape myth - total sample size of 12,323 The authors believe they found clear evidence confirming the link between increased risk for negative human development when exposed to pornography. The article first appeared on the National Foundation for Family Research and Education(NFFRE)web site. The organization's mission is to further "family values" and to our knowledge, the article was never submitted for peer review. However, it was subsequently published as a book chapter. [Violato, Claudio; Oddone-Paolucci, Elizabeth; Genuis, Mark (2000). The changing family and child development. (pp. 48-59). Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. xxiv, 301 pp.]
This was originally presented as a plenary session at the 2009 ATSA conference
This 2001 Federal report from the Center on Missing and Exploited Children focuses on the criminal-justice system’s responses to child pornography production, distribution, and possession within the United States and in other countries. The first section describes the nature and scope of the problem of child pornography including the effects on the child victims. The next section describes state and federal statutes, investigative approaches, and selected law-enforcement initiatives combating this form of child sexual exploitation. Finally the monograph highlights policy and best-practice issues surrounding legal and law-enforcement responses to child victims.
Ken Lanning arguably remains one of the most famous FBI agents of all time, probably THE most famous comes to investigating unusual child sexual absue cases. His experiences, intuituve understanding of deviant minds, and creative ways of thinking are worth reading. And that's what we have here. In this section of a larger work on child sexual abusers Lanning gives us his creative but scientifically unsupported opinions about the role of child-erotica collection in the lives of true pedophiles.
The guide, one of a serires developed for law enforcemnt, describes the problem of child pornography, identifies aq series of questions to assist law enforcement in analyzing the problem locally, and reviews respnses to the problem and "what is known about these from evaluative research and police practice."
A Newspaper article describing controversy over a Federal Bureau of Prisons study linking child pornography use to constact sex offending. The study had been accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal but was withdrawn by the Bureau at the last minute.
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In this Bulletin you will find Two articles dealing with establishing federal jurisdiction, evidence gathering, and child victim issues, three articles pertaining to the topic of evidence gathering., a pair of articles about the proper handling of child victims and child witnesses and finally, one case study focusing on a successful prosecution of a defendant for violating an obscenity provision prohibiting an individual from trafficking obscene virtual representations of children, regardless of whether those children are real or not.
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion that considers some technical issues regarding "possession" of child pornography on a computer. There is no question that the defendant accessed the pornographic images on the World Wide Web. This opinion discusses whether he also knew the images would remain on his computer after he surfed away from the site.
A study examining the unique contribution of pornography consumption to the longitudinal prediction of criminal recidivism in a sample of 341 child molesters. After controlling for general and specific risk factors for sexual aggression, pornography added significantly to the prediction of recidivism. Statistical interactions indicated that frequency of pornography use was primarily a risk factor for higher-risk offenders, when compared with lower-risk offenders, and that content of pornography (i.e., pornography containing deviant content) was a risk factor for all groups.
There is little sound empirical research on the role of pornography in the commission of sex crimes against children. This annotated bibliography represents the fruit of numerous PsychInfo, Eric, and National Library of Medicine (PubMed) searches on this topic beginning in the late 1990’s and updated through early 2008. Some articles support a connection between pornography/child pornography and hands-on sex crimes/child molestation. Others found no support for such a hypothesis. At least one article supports the notion that ready availability of pornography might, at least in some instances, reduce the likelihood of hands-on sex crimes. Michael Seto summed the data up rather nicely when he wrote, “The evidence for a causal link between pornography use and sexual offending remains equivocal. . . . . Individuals who are already predisposed to sexually offend are the most likely to show an effect of pornography exposure and are the most likely to show the strongest effects. Men who are not predisposed are unlikely to show an effect; if there actually is an effect.” (Seto, M. C., A. Maric, et al. (2001). “The role of pornography in the etiology of sexual aggression.” Aggression & Violent Behavior 6(1): 35-53.)
This study based on prisoner self-report shows a strong link between child pornography use and contact sexual offenses against children. After being presented at the 2000 Treatment and research Conference of the National Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, it was widely quoted in academic and forensic settings although it was never submitted publication in a peer reviewed journal. The authors have cautioned that the population was quite unique and although the subject deserves much further study it is inappropriate to generalize from this particular study.
Describes two unpublished studies of child pornography offenders the author conducted within the Federal Bureau of Prisons Sex Offender Treatment Program. In the first (n=55) he found that 80% had committed contact sex offenses against children. In the second study (n=155) he found that 85% had committed contact offenses. Both studies relied on self report encouaged through treatment and coerced via polygraph examinations. Hernandez concluses that internet based child pornography offenders may be more dangerous than previously thought but cautions that he studied highly unique samples and that his methods were not rigourously scientific. Nonetheless, the second study was submitted to and accepted for publication in 2007 in the Journal of Family Violence. However, it was withdrawn at the last minute by the Author's employer, the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
An empirical study examining the likelihood that men convicted of child pornography offenses will later be convicted of contact sex offenses.
In this Article, Professor Adler argues that child pornography law, intended to protect children from sexual exploitation, threatens to reinforce the very problem it attacks.
Published by he Canadian Department of Justice in 2003, this literature review explores two questions: 1. To what extent do pedophiles consume pornography, particularly child pornography? A corollary to this question is how and where the child pornography is obtained. 2. How is pornography used by pedophiles?
Postal Inspectors claim to have "strong evidence" (whatever that is) that many people they apprehend for possession of child pornography have also committed hands-on sex crimes against children. This brief article from their agency's newsletter describes some of what they are doing. Unfortunately, none of their material has been published in meaningful detail. The little that has been published (in newsletters and press releases) does not explain how they know that the pornographers they arrested have actually molested children. The data on which the agency's claims are based should be subjected to scientific scrutiny but in its present form it seems vastly premature to base any conclusions on it.
This 2001 Federal report from the Center on Missing and Exploited Children focuses on the criminal-justice system’s responses to child pornography production, distribution, and possession within the United States and in other countries. The first section describes the nature and scope of the problem of child pornography including the effects on the child victims. The next section describes state and federal statutes, investigative approaches, and selected law-enforcement initiatives combating this form of child sexual exploitation. Finally the monograph highlights policy and best-practice issues surrounding legal and law-enforcement responses to child victims.
From National Center for Missing & Exploited Children