Abstract
Child sexual abuse is a burning social problem and has a major psychosocial impact on a child's future life. Domestic and global statistics show that this phenomenon is partially shifting to the cyberspace, which often provides perpetrators with anonymity and wider reach.
This is partly due to the increasing amount of time that children spend on the Internet. In the future, we can expect a further increase of online sexual victimization of children.
Typologies of perpetrators of sexual abuse of children are usually created on the basis of linguistic-behavioral characteristics and on the basis of data obtained from law organizations. This presentation will include the results of a systematic research focused on the existing typologies of perpetrators of sexual abuse of children (online and onsite) and the resulting conclusions.
This will then be discussed in the context of usability in sex education and clinical practice.