An excellent commentary and overview, with current statistics, IMO:
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/inside-the-mind-of-the-sex-offender_2011-07-02.html
Inside the mind of the sex offender
Many factors to account for, experts say, and each case is different
July 3, 2011
"Some people who create or view child pornography know it's wrong and feel shame after they commit the crime.
Others are considered psychopathic and either don't understand child pornography is wrong or don't care.
Some perpetrators were physically or emotionally abused as children. Others weren't.
Sometimes there are physiological factors, and people's baser brain functions override their logical prefrontal cortex functions, making them more likely to want to view child pornography.
With a former Jackman kindergarten teacher pleading guilty recently to federal charges of producing child pornography, and other recent arrests across the state -- sometimes of people in respected positions -- the question becomes: Why?"
more at link (we have a thread on Rob Mocarsky of Jackman)
http://www.onlinesentinel.com/news/inside-the-mind-of-the-sex-offender_2011-07-02.html
Inside the mind of the sex offender
Many factors to account for, experts say, and each case is different
July 3, 2011
"Some people who create or view child pornography know it's wrong and feel shame after they commit the crime.
Others are considered psychopathic and either don't understand child pornography is wrong or don't care.
Some perpetrators were physically or emotionally abused as children. Others weren't.
Sometimes there are physiological factors, and people's baser brain functions override their logical prefrontal cortex functions, making them more likely to want to view child pornography.
With a former Jackman kindergarten teacher pleading guilty recently to federal charges of producing child pornography, and other recent arrests across the state -- sometimes of people in respected positions -- the question becomes: Why?"
more at link (we have a thread on Rob Mocarsky of Jackman)
