The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

interviewed on four occasions, with each interview lasting, on average, 2 hours. All fourinterviews were taped, transcribed, and analyzed. 1 figure and 28 referencesOnline "Predators" and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention andTreatment.Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., Mitchell, K., and Ybarra, M.American Psychologist, 63(2), 111-128, 2008.Abstract: The publicity about online “predators” who prey on naïve children using trickery andviolence is largely inaccurate. Internet sex crimes involving adults and juveniles more often fit amodel of statutory rape—adult offenders who meet, develop relationships with, and openlyseduce underage teenagers—than a model of forcible sexual assault or pedophilic childmolesting. This is a serious problem, but one that requires approaches different from those incurrent prevention messages emphasizing parental controland the dangers of divulging personal information. Developmentally appropriate preventionstrategies that target youths directly and acknowledge normal adolescent interests in romanceand sex are needed. These should provide younger adolescents with awareness and avoidanceskills while educating older youths about the pitfalls of sexual relationships with adults and theircriminal nature. Particular attention should be paid to higher risk youths, including those withhistories of sexual abuse, sexual orientation concerns, and patterns of off- and online risk taking.Mental health practitioners need information about the dynamicsof this problem and the characteristics of victims and offenders because they are likely toencounter related issues in a variety of contexts.Sexual Fantasy In Paedophile Offenders: Can Any Model Explain Satisfactorily New FindingsFrom A Study Of Internet And Contact Sexual Offenders?Sheldon, Kerry; Howitt, Dennis.Legal and Criminological Psychology, Feb2008, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p137-158, 22p.Abstract: Purpose. Abstract: There is widespread acceptance that sexual fantasy plays a role insexual offences but little clarity as the nature of this relationship. This paper seeks to understandbetter the role of fantasy in offending behaviour through the study of sexual fantasy in Internetchild pornography offenders when compared with contact offenders. Differences in the patternsof sexual fantasy associated with the different offender types are explored in order to understandhow fantasy content is associated with contact offences with children and desisting from suchdirect acting out. Methods. Participants were all convicted of child sexual offences and recruitedwith the help of the probation and prison services. Out of these, 16 were Internet-only offenders,25 were contact offenders with no history of Internet offending and 10 were offenders with amixed contact and Internet offending history. A variety of self-completion questionnairesincluding fantasy were completed on an individual basis together with a detailed interview.Results. The most common sexual fantasies were typical adult-male heterosexual fantasiesthough a variety of child-oriented and other fantasies were also common. Contact offendersreported fewer girl-oriented sexual fantasies although the groups did not differ in terms of termsof boy-oriented fantasies. There was evidence that confrontational fantasies were commoneramong contact offenders than Internet offenders. There are relationships between early sexualexperiences and fantasy but peer sexual contacts seemed to be important rather than sexualabuse. Conclusion. Generally, the contact offenders seem to have less sexual fantasy pertinent toF-34