University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
The Lucy Faithful Foundation, Nightingale House, 46-48 East Street, Epsom KT17 1HQ, UK.
Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Aug;154:106936. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.106936. Epub 2024 Jul 14.
Most research examining the consumption of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has focused on offenders' demographic and psychological characteristics. While such research may assist in the development of therapeutic interventions with known offenders, it has little to offer the development of interventions for the vast majority of offenders who are never caught.
To learn more about the offending strategies of CSAM offenders, in order to inform prevention efforts to deter, disrupt, and divert individuals from their pursuit of CSAM.
PARTICIPANTS & SETTING: Seventy-five male CSAM offenders, who were living in the community and were voluntarily participating in a treatment programme.
Participants completed a detailed self-report questionnaire focussing on their pathways to offending and their online behaviour.
Most participants reported that they did not initially seek out CSAM but that they first encountered it inadvertently or became curious after viewing legal pornography. Their involvement in CSAM subsequently progressed over time and their offending generally became more serious. The most notable feature of participants' online behaviour was the relative lack of sophisticated technical expertise. Opportunity and other situational factors emerged as mediators of offending frequency. Offending patterns were affected by participants' psychological states (e.g., depression, anger, stress), offline relationships and commitments (e.g., arguments with spouse, loss of job), and online experiences (e.g., blocked sites, viruses, warning messages).
Findings suggest that many offenders are receptive to change and may be potentially diverted from their offending pathway.
大多数研究都集中在研究性虐待儿童材料（CSAM）的犯罪者的人口统计学和心理特征上。虽然这种研究可能有助于为已知犯罪者开发治疗干预措施，但对于绝大多数从未被抓住的犯罪者来说，它对开发干预措施几乎没有帮助。
了解 CSAM 犯罪者的犯罪策略，以便为预防工作提供信息，阻止、扰乱和转移个人追求 CSAM。
75 名男性 CSAM 犯罪者，他们居住在社区中，自愿参加治疗计划。
参与者完成了一份详细的自我报告问卷，重点关注他们的犯罪途径和他们的在线行为。
大多数参与者表示，他们最初并没有寻找 CSAM，而是在无意中首次遇到它，或者在观看合法色情内容后感到好奇。他们随后逐渐涉足 CSAM，他们的犯罪行为通常变得更加严重。参与者在线行为最显著的特点是相对缺乏复杂的技术专业知识。机会和其他情境因素成为犯罪频率的中介。犯罪模式受到参与者心理状态（如抑郁、愤怒、压力）、线下关系和承诺（如与配偶争吵、失业）以及在线体验（如被封锁的网站、病毒、警告消息）的影响。
研究结果表明，许多犯罪者都愿意改变，并且可能会被转移出他们的犯罪途径。
