Cyber-pedocriminality: Characteristics of a sample of internet child pornography offenders

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 570-575

  Niveau, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Child pornography; Forensic psychiatry; Internet; Pedophilia

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BISEXUALITY; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PORNOGRAPHY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CRIME; CYBER PEDOCRIMINALITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; OFFENDER; PEDOPHILIA; PUBLICATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND; THEFT; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD; CRIMINALS; EROTICA; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDOPHILIA; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955429443     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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