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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Criminal Diversity and Paraphilic Interests Among Adult Males Convicted of Sexual Offenses Against Children

Stephen W. Smallbone

Senior Lecturer and Director of Forensic Psychology Training, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Queensland 4111, Australia, S.Smallbone{at}griffith.edu.au

Richard K. Wortley

Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Mt. Gravatt Campus, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Australia, R.Wortley{at}griffith.edu.au

Official demographic and offense history data (n = 362) and confidential self-report data on paraphilic interests and behavior (n = 221) obtained on adult males convicted of sexual offenses against children were analyzed. Considerable criminal diversity was observed, with all standard categories of offenses represented in offenders’ criminal histories. Most (86%) of the offenders’previous convictions were for nonsexual offenses, and most (92%) of the recidivist offenders had previously been convicted of at least one nonsexual offense. The prevalence of diagnosable paraphilias was low, with only 5% meeting formal diagnostic criteria for multiple (two or more) paraphilias other than pedophilia. Sexual offenders’paraphilic interests were unrelated to the extent of their sexual offense convictions but were significantly related to the extent of their nonsexual offense convictions. The results are better explained by a general theory of crime than by traditional clinical conceptions linking sexual offenses specifically with sexual psychopathology.

Key Words: criminal diversity • paraphilias • sexual offending • child molesters

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 48, No. 2, 175-188 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X03258477
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