Girls were more likely than boys to experience child sexual abuse by all classes of perpetrator except for institutional caregivers Mathews, Finkelhor, Pacella, et al. A study of the characteristics of child sex trafficking offenders revealed differences in offender characteristics according to whether the offender was a trafficker, a producer or consumer, or in possession of child sexual abuse images.
The majority of offenders were male for all offence types. Trafficking was associated with being African American and unemployed.
Unemployment was the only significant predictor of engaging in child sex trafficking as either a sex buyer or producer. Those in possession of child sexual abuse images were most likely to be employed, with no history of prior arrests, and older than other offenders. This earlier version of the Personal Safety Survey ABS, also showed that both males and females reported experiencing sexual abuse as a child by someone known to them.
However, this data showed that during their life course women were more likely to have reported being sexually abused by family members:. Authority figures, meanwhile, represented between 0.
Inconsistent findings were reported for intra-familial abuse: parents or other family members constituted 1. A Belgian study investigating the general personality traits of child sex offenders as compared to those who engage in nonsexual offending and a nonoffending control group found that the personality features of the child sex offenders were more similar to those of the non-offenders than to those of the nonsexual offenders.
