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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,095 Views
19 Pages

The public stigma associated with pedophilia, the sexual attraction to prepubescent children, is tremendous. Previous research indicates that undifferentiated media coverage plays an essential role in perpetuating the public stigma by falsely equatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
14,784 Views
19 Pages

The fierce stigma associated with pedophilia may interfere with attempts to prevent sexual offending. Prior research on the effects of media reports about pedophilia mostly focused on their role in perpetuating stigma in the general population. In or...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8,894 Views
29 Pages

A Survey of Generative AI for Detecting Pedophilia Crimes

  • Filipe Silva,
  • Rodrigo Rocha Silva and
  • Jorge Bernardino

24 June 2025

The complexity for law enforcement and child protection agencies has been exacerbated by the proliferation of child sexual exploitation channels, facilitated by digital platforms and social media. Generative AI’s ability to analyze large datase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,155 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2022

Background: Pedophilia is a deviant sexual interest subject to more public stigma and punitive attitudes than others. Pedophilia has received a disproportionate amount of scholarly attention in comparison to other deviant sexual interests. To address...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
8,054 Views
23 Pages

Neuroanatomical and Neurocognitive Differences Between the Executive Functions in Child Sexual Offenders: A Systematic Review

  • Yaiza Ara-García,
  • Manuel Martí-Vilar,
  • Laura Badenes-Ribera and
  • Francisco González-Sala

Background/Objectives: Studies on executive functions in child sex offenders relate their findings to the presence of pedophilia, but they are not able to distinguish between paraphilia and abuse. It is therefore this lack of a distinction that leads...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,501 Views
13 Pages

Two Sides of One Coin: A Comparison of Clinical and Neurobiological Characteristics of Convicted and Non-Convicted Pedophilic Child Sexual Offenders

  • Charlotte Gibbels,
  • Christopher Sinke,
  • Jonas Kneer,
  • Till Amelung,
  • Sebastian Mohnke,
  • Klaus Michael Beier,
  • Henrik Walter,
  • Kolja Schiltz,
  • Hannah Gerwinn and
  • Tillmann H.C. Kruger
  • + 8 authors

High prevalence of child sexual offending stand in contradiction to low conviction rates (one-tenth at most) of child sexual offenders (CSOs). Little is known about possible differences between convicted and non-convicted pedophilic CSOs and why only...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,031 Views
20 Pages

This paper is a review essay of the recently published Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, edited by Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, and Lori Watson (2022). The anthology consists of an introduction and 40 essays, and it has eight p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,140 Views
11 Pages

8 October 2021

In recent years, the Catholic Church has been forced to change its attitude towards social communication and mass media. It has had to face not only religious but image challenges. Worldview matters, contemporary problems regarding the institution of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
656 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2025

In the winter of 1991, the frenzied scandal around Bret Easton Ellis’s serial killer smash American Psycho overshadowed another, no less serious literary controversy. Published less than two months after Ellis’s blockbuster, Dennis Cooper...