Implicit Theories of Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offenders: Cross-Cultural Validation of Interview Findings.

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Offense-supportive cognitions are thought to result from underlying implicit theories (ITs). As child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) users are a distinct type of sex offender, Bartels and Merdian proposed that CSEM offenders hold five different ITs from those endorsed by contact sex offenders (i.e., [CSEM variant], and ), linked by an assumption about the . This article reports a conceptual content analysis of 23 interviews conducted with CSEM offenders in the United Kingdom and Spain. Support for all CSEM-specific ITs was found across both samples, providing an empirical validation of this conceptualization. Finally, four ITs originally identified for contact sex offenders were also identified, namely, , and . Further validation of CSEM-related ITs is encouraged.
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Authors Soldino, Virginia;Merdian, Hannah L;Bartels, Ross M;Bradshaw, Hannah K;
Journal International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year 2020
DOI 10.1177/0306624X19877599
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interview cognitive distortions child sexual exploitation material implicit theory online sex offenders

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