Topic > Pedophilia and the criminal justice system - 1458

The Central Administrative Committee for Pedophilia of the NVSH in 1973 decided to send a questionnaire to try to find out about the various aspects of pedophilia itself and the composition of the group (Bernard, 1975). The questions asked concerned personal issues such as age, education, etc., questions about pedophilia, questions about substitutes to combat the problem and finally questions about conflicts with society and the criminal justice system. Most of the people who responded to the questionnaire were under 40 years old. This is surprising given the image that criminal justice and the media show us. Typically we tend to see a man much older than 40 who is senile. It turned out that ninety percent of pedophiles were unmarried and without children. Their job profiles also varied widely, from office jobs to academic professions. Overwhelmingly, when you go back to the diagnostic criteria of when to diagnose someone with pedophilic disorder, we usually don't diagnose someone in adolescence because of puberty. In the questionnaire, people with the disorder realized their disorder between the ages of 10 and 20. This is shocking due to the fact that by the age of ten they have not gone through puberty and many do not know what sex is. Most kids have homorelational relationships like friends, meaning girls think boys are disgusting. They grow out of this once they reach puberty. This question calls into question how much research should be done on adolescence to investigate when pedophilia can really begin. What is even more shocking, and calls into question further research, is the fact that the age at which individuals had their first pedophilic contact with a child was between 11 and 20 years old. Eleven is young enough to learn about sex and its sexual connotations. The ages at which individuals were most interested varied. The highest percentage was that of puberty, in age