Demographic And Motivation Differences Among Online Sex Offenders By Type Of Offense: An Exploration Of Routine Activities Theories

Keywords

Internet sex crimes; offender/perpetrator; sexual abuse; theoretical issues

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the relationship between online sexual offenders demographic background and characteristics indicative of motivation and offense type. Specifically, we investigate whether these characteristics can distinguish different online sexual offender groups from one another as well as inform routine activity theorists on what potentially motivates perpetrators. Using multinomial logistic regression, this study found that online sexual offenders demographic backgrounds and characteristics indicative of motivation do vary by offense types. Two important implications of this study are that the term "online sexual offender" encompasses different types of offenders, including some who do not align with mainstream medias characterization of "predators," and that the potential offender within routine activity theory can be the focus of empirical investigation rather than taken as a given in research.

Publication Date

10-3-2015

Publication Title

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

Volume

24

Issue

7

Number of Pages

753-771

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2015.1077363

Socpus ID

84946497860 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84946497860

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