PSY 622 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Forensic Psychiatry, Threat Assessment, Witness Protection
15 Dec 2015
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Polygraph: there are experts to go with these, expert interviewers. Child pornography safeguarding (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Definition: erotic arousal to prepubescent child, target choice is 13 or younger. But kids reach puberty at different ages. For girls it can be 10-15: min age of 16 or 5 years older than child. Children who have reached puberty: infantaphilia, nepiophilia. Usually men mental illness: most women who offend have personality disorder or. Can know what they"re interested in based on numbers: what they collect in their pornography. Very rarely are women actually attracted to children. Molesting and paedophilia don"t always go hand in hand: you can have fantasies but not act on it, you can offend due to the opportunity but not actually be. But for some, if females are not available they will sexually attracted to children. Attraction types: sexually attracted to male, sexually attracted to females move to males, sexually attracted to both, limited to incest.
