Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Pedophilia=== {{Main|Pedophilia}} Pedophilia is a condition in which an adult or older adolescent is primarily or exclusively attracted to prepubescent children, whether the attraction is acted upon or not.<ref>World Health Organization, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10. § F65.4</ref><ref>American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fourth edition text revision), § 302.2</ref> A person with this [[paraphilia]] is called a ''pedophile''. In [[Police|law enforcement]], the term ''pedophile'' is sometimes used to describe those accused or convicted of child sexual abuse under [[Minor (law)|sociolegal definitions of ''child'']] (including both prepubescent children and adolescents younger than the local [[age of consent]]);<ref name="ames">{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/BF01541928 |title=Legal, social, and biological definitions of pedophilia |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_archives-of-sexual-behavior_1990-08_19_4/page/333 |year=1990 |last1=Ames |first1=M. Ashley |last2=Houston |first2=David A. |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=333–42 |pmid=2205170|s2cid=16719658 }}</ref> however, not all child sexual offenders are pedophiles and not all pedophiles engage in sexual abuse of children.<ref name="barbaree-seto">{{Cite book|first1=Richard|last1=Laws|first2=William T.|last2=O'Donohue |year=1997 |title=Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment|pages= 175–93 |publisher=Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-57230-241-9|contribution=H. E. Barbaree, M. C. Seto }}</ref><ref name=apaDSM>{{cite web|url=http://www.psych.org/news_room/press_releases/diagnosticcriteriapedophilia.pdf |title=American Psychiatric Association Statement Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia |date=June 17, 2003|publisher=American Psychiatric Association |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070629090023/http://www.psych.org/news_room/press_releases/diagnosticcriteriapedophilia.pdf |archive-date = June 29, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/088626091006003002 |title=Self-Report of Crimes Committed by Sex Offenders |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_journal-of-interpersonal-violence_1991-09_6_3/page/286 |year=1991 |last1=Weinrott |first1=M. R. |last2=Saylor |first2=M. |journal=Journal of Interpersonal Violence |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=286–300|s2cid=143721956 }}</ref> For these reasons, researchers recommend against imprecisely describing all child molesters as ''pedophiles''.<ref>{{cite book | first= Kenneth V. | last= Lanning|title = Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis | edition = fifth | year = 2010 | publisher = [[National Center for Missing and Exploited Children]] | url = http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC70.pdf | pages = 29–30 | access-date = June 9, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101224092439/http://www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC70.pdf | archive-date = December 24, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | first=Michael | last=Seto| date = 2008 | title = Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children | location = Washington, DC | publisher = [[American Psychological Association]] | page = vii}}</ref> The term ''pedocriminality'' ([[German language|De]]: ''Pädokriminalität''; [[French language|Fr]]: ''pédocriminalité'') is a controversial term which originated in the 1980s and has been used by organisations such as [[UNICEF]], [[UNHRC]], the [[World Health Organization]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Schauer |first=Cathrin |title=Kinder auf dem Strich: Bericht von der deutsch-tschechischen Grenze |date=2003 |publisher=Horleman Verlag |isbn=978-3-89502-174-9 |language=de}}</ref> and the [[Council of Europe]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Group of specialists on the impact of the use of new information technologies on trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation (EG-S-NT): Final Report|url=http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/trafficking/Docs/activities/EGSNT2002-9rev_en.asp|website=coe.int|publisher=[[Council of Europe]]|access-date=31 July 2015|location=[[Strasbourg]], [[Alsace]], [[France]]|date=16 September 2003}}</ref> to refer to child sexual abuse and sexual violence used against children,<ref>Andrea Buskotte 2010: ''Sexuelle Ausbeutung von Kindern.'' In: Bernd-Dieter Meier (Hrsg.) ''Kinder im Unrecht, Junge Menschen als Täter und Opfer'', Band 27 von Kriminalwissenschaftliche Schriften, LIT Verlag Münster, {{ISBN|3-643-10505-3}} S. 63.</ref><ref name="Gallwitz">Adolf Gallwitz, Manfred Paulus 2009: ''Pädokriminalität weltweit: sexueller Kindesmissbrauch, Kinderhandel, Kinderprostitution und Kinderpornographie''. VDP, Verl. Dt. Polizeiliteratur, {{ISBN|3-8011-0598-9}}.</ref> [[child prostitution]], [[child trafficking]] and the use of [[child pornography]].<ref>[https://so.ch/fileadmin/internet/staatskanzlei/stk-sekretariat/pdf/medienmitteilungen/2006/grundlagenbericht_jugendgewalt_def.pdf Amt für soziale Sicherheit ASO, Kanton Solothurn: ''Grundlagenbericht Dezember 2005/April 2006''] (PDF; 220 kB). S. 12</ref> The term "cyber-pedocriminality" has been used to refer to the activities of viewers of child pornography online.<ref>{{cite journal | pmid = 20605633 | doi=10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.01.011 | volume=34 | issue=8 | title=Cyber-pedocriminality: characteristics of a sample of internet child pornography offenders | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_child-abuse-neglect_2010-08_34_8/page/570 | journal=Child Abuse Negl | pages=570–5 | last1 = Niveau | first1 = G| year=2010 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page