Research Papers

Last updated in March 2024. 

• • A qualitative content analysis of an online support forum for family members of individuals with reported histories of sexual offences. Katie Cassidy, Laura Kabbash, and Scott T .Ronis (2021). Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Research paper.

• • Predictors of Individual and Interpersonal Adjustment Among Non-offending Partners of Individuals With Histories of Sexual Offenses. Cassidy, Katie; Ronis, Scott (2023). Sexual Abuse. Vol. 0(0) 1–30. Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Fredericton, New Brunswick. Research paper.

• • Offences involving indecent images of children (do not lead to contact offences). Scottish Sentencing Council (2022). Literature Review. Professor Melissa Hamilton, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, School of Law, University of Surrey and Dr Ian Belton, Department of psychology, Middlesex University.

• • The experiences of non-offending partners of individuals who have committed sexual offences. Recommendations for practitioners and stakeholders. Katie Duncan, Andrea Wakeham, Belinda Winder, Rachel Armitage, Lucy Roberts, and Nicholas Blagden. At the Sexual Offences, Crime and Misconduct Research Unit, Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University and Applied Criminology and Policing Centre, University of Huddersfield. (November 2020). Research Paper.

• • Collateral Damage: Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders. Jill Levenson & Richard Tewksbury.  American Journal of Criminal Justice 34(1):54-68 (June 2009), Research Paper.

• • Adverse childhood experience and young adult’s problematic Internet use: The role of hostility and loneliness. Wen-Hsu Lin, Chi Chiao. Child Abuse & Neglect. Volume 149, (March 2024). Research Paper.

• • “Grieving someone who’s still alive, that’s hard”: the experiences of non-offending partners of individuals who have sexually offended – an IPA study” Katie Duncan, Andrea Wakeham, Belinda Winder, Rachel Armitage and Nicholas Blagden. Journal of Sexual Aggression. (2022)
    Research Paper.

• • Child Pornography Offender Characteristics and Risk to Reoffend. Michael C. Seto, Ph.D., C.Psych. Royal Ottawa Health Care Group Prepared for the United States Sentencing Commission. February 6, 2012. Research Paper.

• • Post-traumatic stress disorder: the neurobiological impact of psychological trauma. Sherin, J and Nemeroff, C. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience Volume 13, 2011 – Issue 3. April 2022 Research Paper.

• • Supporting Those Who Love the Loathed: Trauma-Informed Support Groups for Family Members of Registered Sex Offenders. Kavanagh, S., & Levenson, J. (2022). Families in Society, 103(2), 208–220. Research Paper.

• • Viewing Child Abuse Images: Paedophile or Addicted to Porn? Julie Newberry (Psychotherapist), Wellbeing.org. (2018 June).
    Media Article.

• • A Rapid Evidence Assessment of Technical Tools for the Detection and Disruption of Child Sexual Abuse Media (CSAM) and CSAM Offenders in The ASEAN Region. May-Chahal, C. , Rashid, A., Peersman, C., Brennan, M., Mills, E., Mei, P., & Barbrook, J. (2022). A Rapid Evidence Assessment of Technical Tools for the Detection and Disruption of Child Sexual Abuse Media (CSAM) and CSAM Offenders in The ASEAN Region. March 2022.

• • Assessing children and families affected by individuals viewing child sexual abuse images on the Internet – Guidelines. Hillingdon. Assessing children and families affected by individuals viewing child sexual abuse images on the Internet. 
    Research Paper.

• • Case report : autism spectrum disorder symptomology and child pornography Allely, CS. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour. (2020) Research Paper.

• • CSAM Users in the DarkWeb: Protecting Children Through Prevention. Suojellaan Lapsia ry. / Protect Children (2022).  An anonymous survey and report of actual hidden users of child sexual abuse material in the DarkWeb.  These ‘men’ typically are the ones who escape conviction.

• • Covid-19 Lockdown, Internet Pornography, and the Risk of Sexual Offending Dr Glyn Hudson-Allez.  StopSO. Tackling Sexual Abuse. Research Article.

• • Evaluation of PartnerSPEAK (2022).Delanie Woodlock, Michael Salter. Research Paper.

• • ‘How would a child see it?’ Exploring the impact when a parent downloads IIOC Lisa Thornhill. University of Bedfordshire. (2019).
    Research Paper.

• • Indecent Images of Children Offending and Suicide: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Partners’ Perspectives Laura Absalom. PhD Thesis. UCL (2021).

• • Literature Review of the Risk Posed by Internet Offenders. Risk Management Authority. 2018. Risk Management Authority. Report.

• • Managing Perpetrators of Child Sexual Exploitation and Indecent Images of Children (IIOC): Understanding Risk of Suicide. Underwood, A; Farnham, F, Key, R, Hawton, K. January 2018. Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust. Research Paper.

• • Offences involving indecent images of children Literature Review. Scottish Sentencing Council. August 2022. Research Paper.

• • Online sexual deviance, pornography and child sexual exploitation material Ethel Quayle. Forensic Psychiatry Psychol. Kriminol (2020) 14:251–25 (2020). Research Paper.

• • ‘Paedophile Hunters’, Criminal Procedure, and Fundamental Human Rights Joe Purshouse (Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law), Journal of Law and Society, (June 2020). Research Paper.

• • Preventing child sexual abuse material offending: An international review of initiatives. Alexandra Gannoni Alexandra Voce Sarah Napier Hayley Boxall Dana Thomsen. Australian Institute of Criminology. 2023. Paper.

• • Profiling Offenders And Victims Of Child Sexual Abuse Materials (CSAM) In India. Shivalaxmi Arumugham* and Beulah Shekhar** 2022

• • Public perceptions of indecent image offenders Taylor-Smith, J.S. (2021). Research Paper shows the over-estimation of risk for IIOC offenders.

• • Reoffending rates in a U.K. community sample of individuals with convictions for indecent images of children Ian Elliott et al (2019). Paper shows low recidivism rate for IIOC offenders (2.7%).

• • Soldiers, savants (ASD), and sexual crimes: An examination of two groups of child pornography offenders JW Schutte, CW Schutte – Forensic Psychology, 2018.  Handout.

• • The Trend of Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitations: A Profile of Online Sexual Offenders and Criminal Justice Response. Kyung-Shick Choi & Hannarae Lee (2023). Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. Research Paper.

• • Turning the Tide Against Online Child Sexual Abuse Skidmore, Aitkenhead & Muir (2022) The Police Foundation Think Tank (UK). Click here.

• • The Pedophilia and Orientation Debate and Its Implications for Forensic Psychiatry Prof. Paul Fedoroff, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, 48 (2) 146-150. ( June 2020)  Research Paper.

• • Viewing Time Measures of Sexual Interest and Sexual Offending Propensity: An Online Survey of Fathers (2021) Seto et al. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Article here. 

• • Working with people who commit sexual offences and their families. Juliet Grayson. Article.

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