Citation

Eke AW, Seto MC, Williams J. Law Hum. Behav. 2011; 35(6): 466-478.

Affiliation

Research Unit, OSOR Behavioural Sciences and Analysis Services, Ontario Provincial Police, 777 Memorial Avenue, Orillia, ON, L3V 7V3, Canada, angela.eke@ontario.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1007/s10979-010-9252-2

PMID

21088873

Abstract

We examined police occurrence and criminal records data for a sample of 201 registered male child pornography offenders originally reported by Seto and Eke (Sex Abus J Res Treat 17:201-210, 2005), extending the average follow-up time for this sample to 5.9 years. In addition, we obtained the same data for another 340 offenders, increasing our full sample to 541 men, with a total average follow-up of 4.1 years. In the extended follow-up of the original sample, 34% of offenders had new charges for any type of re-offense, with 6% charged with a contact sexual offense against a child and an additional 3% charged with historical contact sex offenses (i.e., previously undetected offenses). For the full sample, there was a 32% any recidivism rate; 4% of offenders were charged with new contact sex offenses, an additional 2% of offenders were charged with historical contact sex offenses and 7% of offenders were charged with a new child pornography offense. Predictors of new violent (including sexual contact) offending were prior offense history, including violent history, and younger offender age. Approximately a quarter of the sample was sanctioned for a failure on conditional release; in half of these failures, the offenders were in contact with children or used the internet, often to access pornography again.

Language: en