Viewing child porn not a risk factor for future sex offences
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 12:21
in Psychology & Sociology
For people without a prior conviction for a hands-on sex offence, the consumption of child pornography alone does not, in itself, seem to represent a risk factor for committing such an offence. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Psychiatry studied 231 men convicted of consuming child pornography in 2002 and found that only 1% had gone on to commit a hands-on sex offence in the following six years...