A picture speaks a thousand words: impulse control in online child sex offenders

Users of Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) are among the fastest growing criminal groups on the internet. Seto’s (2013) Motivation-Facilitation Model predicts that crossover to contact offending is dependent on motivational aspects (e.g., a sexual interest in children) and facilitative aspects (e.g., anti-sociality). The current study was aimed at refining the impact of a lack of inhibitions and impulsivity on these risk transgressions, by analysing data collected through interviews, psychometric assessments and a computerised assessment of sexual interest (The Explicit and Implicit Sexual Interest Profile; EISIP; Banse, Schmidt & Clarbour, 2010)