Internet Sex Offenders

Product Description

One of the most chilling aspects of our technological age is the seeming ease with which perpetrators can use the internet to commit sexual offenses.

In this comprehensive, state-of-the science work, Michael C. Seto examines the use and contribution of the internet to sexual crimes including the creation and dissemination of child pornography, and online and offline solicitation efforts leading to contact offenses such as rape and sexual assault. He also investigates the impact of the internet on related issues such as statutory offending, “grooming” tactics, “sexting,” as well as the truth about “stranger danger” and the real risk to children of assault and abduction.

Review

Internet Sex Offenders is an important work of seminal scholarship and a highly recommended addition to professional and academic library. –Midwest Book Review

“With this book, Dr. Seto builds upon his impressive body of work in sex offender research, and clearly establishes himself as one of the world s foremost experts in internet sex crimes. ” – Intelligence

Internet Sex Offenders will provide an overview of the research and theory in this practice area in a clearly written book by one of the foremost experts in this specialty. For those of you who evaluate or treat this population, my advice is simple: Buy this book. –Phillip H. Witt, American Psychology Law Society”Internet Sex Offenders is an important work of seminal scholarship and a highly recommended addition to professional and academic library.” – Midwest Book Review
An excellent review of the existing literature with important policy recommendations…an important resource for clinicians, lawyers, judges, policy makers and other researchers interested in understanding what we know about Internet sexual crimes and what we do not know. –PsycCRITIQUES

About the Author

Michael C. Seto, PhD, received his doctorate in psychology from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is a registered clinical psychologist and the director of forensic rehabilitation research for the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group’s Integrated Forensic Program. He also has adjunct professorship appointments in psychology and/or psychiatry at four accredited universities: the University of Toronto, Ryerson University, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa.
 
Dr. Seto has published extensively on pedophilia, child pornography, sexual offending, violence risk assessment, and mentally disordered offenders and regularly presents at scientific meetings and professional workshops on these topics. He recently authored a well-reviewed book on pedophilia and sexual offending against children,
Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention, published by APA in 2008.