![]() ![]() Results suggest these offenders represent a small group of motivated, persistent offenders who are willing to adapt their offending to target new and different victims in different contexts. Overall, by transitioning between victims of different genders or ages, or from family members to acquaintances or strangers, two-thirds exhibited some degree of versatility in their sexual offending against children. Transitions between victims of different ages and genders were relatively common among alleged offenders following their contact with the criminal justice system, as were transitions between intra-familial and extra-familial victims. Most offenders targeted new victims-acquaintances and family members-in residential settings. A significant minority engaged in both contact and non-contact offences, and these offenders were more likely to target multiple victims and be involved in multiple incidents. These offenders accounted for a very small proportion of alleged child sexual assault offenders known to police. Using data from four states-New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia- we explore the characteristics of contact child sexual offences involving an alleged offender who has a prior recorded history of alleged child sexual offences of any kind. ![]() The findings suggest that offenders who restricted their offending behavior to online child pornography offences were different from mixed offenders and offline sex offenders against children, and that mixed offenders were a particularly high risk group. ![]() Mixed offenders were found to be the most pedophilic, even more than CPOs. CPOs were also more likely to have psychological barriers to sexual offending than sex offenders against children and mixed offenders (e.g., greater victim empathy). Sex offenders against children and mixed offenders were found to score higher on indicators of antisociality than online child pornography offenders (CPOs). Differences between the groups, however, were not limited to differential opportunities. ![]() In contrast, offenders who used the internet to commit sexual offences had greater access to the internet than those with contact sex offenders. Offenders who committed contact sex offences were more likely to have access to children than those with only child pornography offences. Based on 30 unique samples (comparison ns ranging from 98 to 2,702), the meta-analysis found key differences between groups. The current meta-analysis compared the characteristics of online child pornography-only offenders, typical (offline) sex offenders against children, and offenders with both child pornography and contact sex offences against children (mixed). ![]()
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