The Prevalence of Sexual Interest in Children and Sexually Harmful Behavior Self-Reported by Men Recruited Through an Online Crowdsourcing Platform

This study examined the feasibility of using crowdsourcing to recruit men who self-report sexual interest in children or sexually problematic behavior involving children. Crowdsourcing refers to the use of the internet to reach a large number of people to complete a specific task. A nonrepresentative sample of men ( N = 997) participated in a brief self-report survey examining age of attraction, sexual interest in children, proclivity toward sexual offenses involving children, and history of sexual offending. Almost a quarter of the sample (23.1%) indicated some degree of sexual interest in children, propensity to sexually offend against children, and/or actual offending behavior. We present our data broken down by type of interest or behavior and examine the frequency of these outcomes. Findings are likely to be of value to those considering the viability of crowdsourcing to overcome the limitations or challenges of face-to-face research on stigmatizing interests and behaviors. Findings also contribute to estimating prevalence of self-reported sexual interest in children, and sexual offending behavior toward children, across different countries.

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INDONESIAN WARSHIP HISTORY INFORMATION SYSTEM OF INDONESIAN FLEET BASED ON WEB

JOURNAL ASRO ◽

10.37875/asro.v10i2.236 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 105

Author(s):

Khairul Huda ◽

Zaenal Syahlan ◽

M Syaifi ◽

Edy Widodo

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Information System ◽

Armed Forces ◽

The Internet ◽

Web Based ◽

History Information ◽

History Of ◽

Access Information ◽

Use Of The Internet ◽

The Web

The development of information technology also developed in line with thedevelopment of human civilization. The development of information technology is veryhelpful, one of which is the internet. The use of the internet has developed into anappropriate means to convey information that is fast, effective and accurate. Submissionof information is not limited to all soldiers and the general public by utilizing technologicalfacilities, namely websites. In conveying the history of Indonesia Warship Raden EddyMartadinata 331 and Indonesia Warship I Gusti Ngurah Rai 332 are still stored in the formof documents on a computer and are still printed in the form of sheets of paper. Inconveying the history of Indonesia Warship, it must be developed further to conveyinformation in the current era. Historical research that executive focuses on the past. Sofar, information on the Indonesia Warship Indonesia Warship's historical informationsystem Raden Eddy Martadinata - 331 and Indonesia Warship I Gusti Ngurah Rai - 332on the web-based Indonesian Armed Forces fleet are still in print. besides usinginformation books, then try to make other alternatives by creating a website, besides thatmembers are expected to access information easily and efficiently. With theineffectiveness in managing Indonesia Warship Indonesia Warship historical data RadenEddy Martadinata - 331 and Indonesia Warship I Gusti Ngurah Rai - 332, a design of theIndonesia Warship historical information system was built in the web-based IndonesianArmada fleet which aims to facilitate the process of Indonesia Warship history search.PHP as a programmer and MySQL as the database.Keywords: Website-Based Indonesia Warship History Information System. PHP MySQL.

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Modern Technology and Mass Education

Global Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch130 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 1806-1821 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ahmed Ali

Keyword(s):

Interactive Video ◽

Modern Technology ◽

Learning System ◽

The Internet ◽

African Countries ◽

Web Based ◽

Face To Face ◽

Positive Attitudes ◽

Education Environment ◽

Use Of The Internet

This case study examined the effectiveness and significance of the Internet and interactive video broadcasting as instructional and communication media in a global virtual learning system. The study explored how differences in students’ technology experiences, curriculum, cultures, and access to technology influence learning and student attitude in a technology-based distance education environment. The research also investigated whether the use of online references and materials is adequate and appropriate for successful distance learning. The setting was a virtual campus that linked universities in the U.S., Australia, and Canada with learning centers in different African countries. E-mail and face-to-face interviews, observations, and Web-based surveys were utilized to collect the data. The study reveals that students had mixed perceptions about the effectiveness of technology, with positive attitudes exhibited towards interactive video and some anxiety and dissatisfaction with the use of the Internet.

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Sex Offenses Perpetrated Against Older Adults: A Multivariate Analysis of Crime Scene Behaviors

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520928639 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052092863

Author(s):

Louise Almond ◽

Martha Sainsbury ◽

Michelle McManus

Keyword(s):

Sexually Abused ◽

Sexual Offending ◽

Crime Scene ◽

Future Research ◽

Background Characteristics ◽

Law Enforcement Agencies ◽

Female Victims ◽

Sexual Offenses ◽

Offending Behavior ◽

The Relationship

The aim of this study was to thematically explore the relationship between crime scene behaviors and background characteristics of offenders who commit sexual offenses against female victims aged 60 years or more. Research and understanding of offense behaviors in this area is extremely limited; therefore, the study sought to provide a preliminary understanding and multivariate model of offense behaviors in cases where older female adults were sexually abused. Twenty-seven crime scene behaviors from 143 rape or attempted rape cases of an older adult victim were analyzed; frequency data were computed to provide base rate information, and Smallest Space Analysis provided a visual representation of the co-occurrence of crime scene behaviors. Three distinct dominant themes were identified, in which 56% of offenses displayed themes of Involvement (22%), Control (17%), and Hostility (16%). The relationship between each dominant theme and selected background characteristics was then analyzed. For example, offenders displaying an Involvement theme were found to be significantly less likely to have prior convictions. Significance was also found in the relationship between dominant themes and a “theft and kindred offence other” preconviction background characteristic. The findings demonstrate offending behavior can be separated into three distinct themes, providing an explanation of offender subtypes and supporting previous models found in other types of sexual offending. Applications for law enforcement agencies regarding identified themes and links with likely offender background characteristics are highlighted. Limitations and future research avenues are discussed.

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A Chip Off the Old Block: The Impact of Fathers on Sexual Offending Behavior

Trauma Violence & Abuse ◽

10.1177/1524838019898463 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 152483801989846

Author(s):

Miranda H. Sitney ◽

Keith L. Kaufman

Keyword(s):

Sexual Offenders ◽

Sexual Offending ◽

Risk Markers ◽

Prevention Programming ◽

Systematic Account ◽

Juvenile Sexual Offenders ◽

Sexual Offenses ◽

Offending Behavior ◽

Research Questions ◽

The Impact

While parenting factors are commonly included as early risk markers for sexual aggression, data specific to paternal impacts on sexual offending are scattered. This review provides a thorough and systematic account of what is known regarding the fathers of sexual offenders. Thirty-four studies were categorized according to four distinct research questions, each addressing theoretical mechanisms by which fathers may influence the violent sexual behavior of their sons. The results suggest that the strongest impacts occur when sons are witness to their fathers engaging in acts of sexual abuse or domestic violence, in accordance with social learning theory. Father–son attachment or relationship quality also appears to have a measurable impact on the son’s engagement in sexual violence. However, paternal demographics and characteristics were generally ineffective at predicting sons’ sexual offenses. Finally, the differences between fathers of adult and juvenile sexual offenders are explored. Implications of those findings for research and applied interventions are included as they may be informative for prevention programming.

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The Development and Validation of the Cognitions of Internet Sexual Offending (C-ISO) Scale

Sexual Abuse ◽

10.1177/1079063219862281 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (8) ◽

pp. 907-930 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sarah Paquette ◽

Franca Cortoni

Keyword(s):

Psychometric Properties ◽

Item Response ◽

Sexual Offending ◽

Classical Test Theory ◽

Test Theory ◽

Future Research ◽

The Internet ◽

Sexual Activities ◽

Sexual Offenses ◽

Development And Validation

Tools designed to measure the cognitions of individuals who engage in sexual activities with children over the Internet are either based on knowledge about men who had committed contact sexual offenses or cognitive phenomena not specifically associated to offending behaviors. Thus, there is no validated tool specifically designed to assess the offense-supportive cognitions of men who use the Internet to sexually offend children. This study developed and validated the Cognitions of Internet Sexual Offending (C-ISO) scale. A sample of 241 men with online and contact sexual as well as with nonsexual offenses completed the C-ISO scale and its psychometric properties, and latent structure was analyzed using both Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT), resulting in a final version containing 31 items. The analyses indicate that the C-ISO has excellent psychometric properties and discriminates men with online sexual offenses from those with contact sexual and nonsexual offenses. Implications of the findings for clinical practice and future research are discussed.

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Between Individuality and Collectiveness

International Journal of E-Politics ◽

10.4018/jep.2010102203 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 41-56 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Anastasia Kavada

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Global Justice ◽

Individual Autonomy ◽

The Internet ◽

Global Justice Movement ◽

Face To Face ◽

Unity In Diversity ◽

Communication Practices ◽

Use Of The Internet

Decentralized and internally diverse, the Global Justice Movement (GJM) is thought to be influenced by its use of the internet. Operating in an environment characterized by the conditions of globalization and late modernity, the movement strives to be a collective that accommodates individual difference. Focusing on the organizing process of the European Social Forum, this article examines the role of email lists and physical meetings in realizing this ‘unity in diversity’. Based on interviews with movement activists and a content analysis of three email lists, this article examines how online and face-to-face communication practices engender different dynamics in terms of individuality and collectiveness. While communication on email lists tends to afford divergence, diversity, and individual autonomy, face-to-face contact enables convergence, unity and the affirmation of the collective. Thus, it is the combination of those two modes of communication that helps the movement to fuse seemingly opposing dynamics.

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Exploring the form and function of dissident Irish Republican online discourses

Media War & Conflict ◽

10.1177/1750635211434371 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 71-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Lorraine Bowman-Grieve ◽

Maura Conway

Keyword(s):

Exploratory Study ◽

Support Function ◽

The Internet ◽

Political Extremism ◽

Face To Face ◽

Form And Function ◽

Irish Republicanism ◽

Use Of The Internet ◽

And Function ◽

Significant Support

This article seeks to contribute to broadening the focus of research in the area of violent online political extremism by examining the use of the internet by dissident Irish Republicans and their supporters. The argument here is not that the internet substitutes face-to-face contacts amongst Irish Republicans, including violent dissidents, nor that it currently plays a central role in processes of radicalisation into violent dissident groups, but that it has an important support function in terms of providing an ‘always-on’ space for discussion, consumption, and production of Irish Republicanism and thus a potentially educative role in terms of introducing ‘newbies’ to violent dissident Republicanism while also acting as a ‘maintenance’ space for the already committed. This exploratory study considers the importance of these functions in the context of repeated suggestions that the dissidents have no significant support base or constituency as internet activity certainly gives the appearance of some such support.

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Civic Organizations and Internet Social Networks: A Case Study in the Province of Buenos Aires

Latin American Perspectives ◽

10.1177/0094582x18766919 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 236-249

Author(s):

Ana Cecilia Silva

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Internal Communication ◽

The Internet ◽

Face To Face ◽

Social Actors ◽

Positioning Strategy ◽

Protection Area ◽

Use Of The Internet ◽

Communication And Coordination

A neighborhood assembly in a medium-sized city in the province of Buenos Aires formed in connection with a petition for designation as a historical protection area uses the Internet to generate visibility spaces alternative to those of the traditional media and install its own agenda, to include in those new spaces the voices and perspectives of new social actors, and to organize and improve its own participatory management. Its use of Facebook has acquired some of the features of “community media.” At the same time, its use of the Internet for internal communication and coordination is clearly accessory to face-to-face interaction. There is a generational difference in access to and decision making about the content to be posted in the various media, and spokespersons have become authorized voices. Appealing to both the traditional and the new media is a crucial aspect of the assembly’s positioning strategy, but the strategy is in constant revision. La asamblea vecinal de una ciudad mediana de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, que se formó en torno a una petición para designarse área de protección histórica utiliza la Internet para la construcción de espacios de comunicación alternativos a los medios tradicionales e instalar así su propia agenda, incluir las voces y perspectivas de nuevos actores sociales en esos nuevos espacios, y organizar y mejorar su propia administración participativa. El uso que le dan a Facebook ha adquirido algunas características de los “medios comunitarios.” Al mismo tiempo, el uso de la Internet para la comunicación y coordinación internas es claramente un accesorio a la interacción cara a cara. Hay una diferencia generacional en el acceso a y decisiones en torno al contenido que se publica en diversos medios, y los voceros se han convertido en voces autorizadas. La estrategia de posicionamiento de la asamblea apela a medios tanto tradicionales como nuevos, pero dicha estrategia está sujeta a revisión constante.

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WhatsApp Grandpa? Determinants of grandparents-grandchildren digital contacts in Italy

10.31235/osf.io/yrvfz ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Arpino ◽

Eleonora Meli ◽

Marta Pasqualini ◽

Cecilia Tomassini ◽

Elisa Cisotto

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Geographic Distance ◽

Network Connectivity ◽

Intergenerational Relationships ◽

Digital Tools ◽

The Internet ◽

Face To Face ◽

Digital Devices ◽

Digital Network ◽

Use Of The Internet

Intergenerational contacts have been broadly defined to include not only face-to-face relations as an important element of associational solidarity but also contacts at a distance, e.g., via telephone. With the spread of the Internet and of digital devices, digital contacts become another increasingly important option. We examined digital contacts between grandparents and grandchildren in comparison with traditional forms of contacts (i.e., by face-to-face and telephone) using Italian data from the 2016 Families, Social Subjects and life cycle (FSS) survey. We found that about 10% of grandparents use digital tools to contact their grandchildren. As the determinants of frequent digital contacts, we found that grandparents belonging to younger cohorts, those better educated, those who lived in more urbanised areas and those in better health were more likely to entertain digital contacts with their grandchildren. Results also show that digital contacts tend to substitute face-to-face contacts, and to cumulate with telephone contacts. Our results have important implications for the current and future development of intergenerational relationships suggesting an increasing role in situation of geographic distance. Against the background of persisting inequalities in the access and the use of the Internet, our findings emphasise the need to improve digital network connectivity and skills especially among specific sub-groups of the population.

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