TY - JOUR PY - 2008// TI - Sexual fantasy in paedophile offenders: Can any model explain satisfactorily new findings from a study of Internet and contact sexual offenders? JO - Legal and criminological psychology A1 - Sheldon, Kerry A1 - Howitt, Dennis SP - 137 EP - 158 VL - 13 IS - 1 N2 - Purpose. There is widespread acceptance that sexual fantasy plays a role in sexual offences but little clarity as the nature of this relationship. This paper seeks to understand better the role of fantasy in offending behaviour through the study of sexual fantasy in Internet child pornography offenders when compared with contact offenders. Differences in the patterns of sexual fantasy associated with the different offender types are explored in order to understand how fantasy content is associated with contact offences with children and desisting from such direct acting out.
LA - SN - 1355-3259 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532506X173045 ID - ref1 ER -