Pedophilia - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending.

12 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: There is an ongoing debate on whether consumers of child pornography pose a risk for hands-on sex offenses. Up until now, there have been very few studies which have analyzed the association between the consumption of child pornography ... Read more...

Clerics who commit sexual offenses: offender, offense, and victim characteristics.

29 Jun 2009 The aim of this investigation was to undertake an exploratory analysis of clerics who sexually offend and the circumstances related to these offenses. Thirty-three adult male religious leaders who had been charged with a sexual offense against a ... Read more...

Implicit measurement of sexual associations in child sex abusers: role of victim type and denial.

30 May 2009 The Implicit Association Test was used to measure cognitive associations between children and sex in men convicted of child-sex offences. It was hypothesized that these cognitions would be different in pedophilic-type offenders (defined by having a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Pedophilia - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending. 12 Jul 2009
• Clerics who commit sexual offenses: offender, offense, and victim characteristics. 29 Jun 2009
• Implicit measurement of sexual associations in child sex abusers: role of victim type and denial. 30 May 2009
• Hebephilia plethysmographica: a partial rejoinder to Blanchard et al. (2008). 30 May 2009
• Facial and prosodic affect recognition among pedophilic and nonpedophilic criminal child molesters. 27 Feb 2009
• A comparative study of two groups of sex offenders identified as high and low risk on the static-99. 27 Feb 2009
• Neurocognitive differences between pedophilic and nonpedophilic child molesters. 8 Feb 2009
• Looking forward in records of young adults convicted of sexual homicide, rape, or molestation as youth: risks for reoffending. 30 Jan 2009
• What is sexual orientation and do women have one? 30 Dec 2008
• Reduced neuronal responsiveness to visual sexual stimuli in a pedophile treated with a long-acting LH-RH agonist. 7 Dec 2008
• Pharmacology of sexually compulsive behavior. 29 Nov 2008
• Sexual arousal patterns: normal and deviant. 29 Nov 2008
• Basic science and neurobiological research: potential relevance to sexual compulsivity. 29 Nov 2008
• Developmental psychopathological perspectives on sexually compulsive behavior. 29 Nov 2008
• [Criminal recidivism among sexual offenders] 29 Nov 2008
• Sexual preferences and recidivism of sex offenders with mental retardation. 29 Nov 2008
• Comparison of personality traits in pedophiles, abstinent opiate addicts, and healthy controls: considering pedophilia as an addictive behavior. 30 Oct 2008
• Issues for DSM-V: unintended consequences of small changes: the case of paraphilias. 29 Sep 2008
• Cyber child sexual exploitation. 30 Aug 2008
• Child sexual abuse in clinical and forensic psychiatry: a review of recent literature. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Pedophilia'

Definition: A sexual disorder occurring in a person 16 years or older and that is recurrent with intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child (generally age 13 or younger). (from APA, DSM-IV, 1994).

Descriptor UI: D010378

Alternative terms: Pedophilia; Pedophilias;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.800.800.600.600;

Online Note: search PARAPHILIAS 1969-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PARAPHILIAS 1981-90; was see under SEX DEVIATION 1969-80