Online and offline child sexual offenders: Who are they and what strategies do they use?

Online and offline child sexual offenders: Who are they and what strategies do they use? - Online and offline child sexual offenders

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON54086

Enrollment

620

Registered

2021-12-06

Start date

2022-02-18

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-11-11

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Conditions

Online behavior sexual abuse

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Sufficient knowledge and understanding of the Dutch language; Age 18 - 70 years old; Forensic patients who are convicted and/or in treatment for a sexual offence against minor victims, more specifically: online grooming offenses (i.e., approaching minors on the Internet for sexual activities), child pornography offenses (i.e., accessing, downloading, possessing, and/or distributing pornographic materials depicting minors), and offline child sexual offenses (i.e., sexually abusing minors in person); General population with no prior offenses.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: IQ under 70; Patients diagnosed with *schizophrenia and other psychopathic disorders* who are experiencing a psychotic episode and/or exhibiting severe symptoms due to their psychotic vulnerability and lack of resilience during the study; Insufficient knowledge and understanding of the Dutch language.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Sociodemographic characteristics are asked, including age, gender, education, marital status, employment, judicial convictions, and psychological assistance. Eleven self-report questionnaires are included: 1. The Personality Inventory for DSM-5-25 (PID-5-25; Van der Heijden et al., 2014); 2. The Self Concept and Identity Measure (SCIM; Kaufman et al., 2015); 3. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16; Bjureberg et al., 2016); 4. The Utrechtse Coping Lijst; subscales Active tackling, Passive reacting, and Avoiding (UCL; Schreurs et al., 1988); 5. The Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI; Cortoni & Marshall, 2001); 6. The UCLA Loneliness scale version 3 (UCLA; Russell, 1996); 7. The Well-Being Questionnaire (W-BQ-12; Pouwer et al., 2000); 8. The Internet Sex Screening Test (ISST; Delmonico & Miller, 2003); 9. The Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18; B*the et al., 2018); 10. The Sexuality Scale (SS; Snell & Papini, 1989); 11. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF; Rosen et al., 1997).	—

Measure

Time frame

Sociodemographic characteristics are asked, including age, gender, education, marital status, employment, judicial convictions, and psychological assistance. Eleven self-report questionnaires are included: 1. The Personality Inventory for DSM-5-25 (PID-5-25; Van der Heijden et al., 2014); 2. The Self Concept and Identity Measure (SCIM; Kaufman et al., 2015); 3. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-16; Bjureberg et al., 2016); 4. The Utrechtse Coping Lijst; subscales Active tackling, Passive reacting, and Avoiding (UCL; Schreurs et al., 1988); 5. The Coping Using Sex Inventory (CUSI; Cortoni & Marshall, 2001); 6. The UCLA Loneliness scale version 3 (UCLA; Russell, 1996); 7. The Well-Being Questionnaire (W-BQ-12; Pouwer et al., 2000); 8. The Internet Sex Screening Test (ISST; Delmonico & Miller, 2003); 9. The Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-18; B*the et al., 2018); 10. The Sexuality Scale (SS; Snell & Papini, 1989); 11. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF; Rosen et al., 1997).

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The PMSA groups are asked to participate in a single interview to deepen the received information of the questionnaires to further investigate the strategies and motives to approach minors for sexual activities on the Internet. The interviews are semi-structured using a topic list of general topics based on the literature and the findings of the questionnaires. Follow-up questions depend on the input of the interviewees.	—

Measure

Time frame

The PMSA groups are asked to participate in a single interview to deepen the received information of the questionnaires to further investigate the strategies and motives to approach minors for sexual activities on the Internet. The interviews are semi-structured using a topic list of general topics based on the literature and the findings of the questionnaires. Follow-up questions depend on the input of the interviewees.

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Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results