Ten Myths About Child Sex Offenders - Fair Play For Children

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Myth 9: Most child sex offenders view childpornography: most people who view childpornography sexually abuse children• Use of pornography by offenders• 75% used general pornography• 10% use child pornography• 4% collected pictures• Offending by pornography users• Prior to internet 30% of arrested childpornographers involved in hand-on offending• Current estimates on treatment/convicted samples17-40%• Post internet massive increase in ‘casual’ viewing(one site received 1 million hits in a month)
Myth 10: Reoffending by child sex offenders canbe reliably predicted by mental healthprofessionals.• Tendency of clinicians to over predict• Assume high base rate• Playing safe• Actuarial more accurate but still many errors.For the most risky 12% of offenders (identifiedon the Static-99) (Hanson & Bussiere, , 1998)• 39% reconvicted after 5 years• 45% reconvicted after 10 years• 52% reconvicted after 15 years
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