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"what_it_supports": "Clinical/forensic distinction between pedophilic age preference and child sexual offending; exclusive vs non-exclusive forms; assessment (including phallometry and SSPI) and treatment evidence." }, { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q8388: pedophilia", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8388", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Pedophilia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "attraction-pattern", "name": "Attraction pattern", "description": "Describe whether the evidence concerns a persistent attraction to prepubescent children.", "rationale": "Recognition requires developmental specificity and persistence rather than a broad label involving minors.", "layers": [ { 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"id": "intrusive-thoughts-and-alternatives", "name": "Intrusive thoughts and alternative explanations", "description": "Record unresolved distinctions that require qualified assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "thought-versus-attraction-assessment", "name": "Thought versus attraction assessment", "description": "Keep feared intrusive thoughts, reported attraction, and other possible explanations distinct; neither distress nor its absence resolves the differential alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the person describe attraction, fear of being attracted, or an account whose meaning remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "thought-versus-attraction-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What differential assessment is needed before attributing a persistent attraction pattern?", "kind": "action", "id": "thought-versus-attraction-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-quality", "name": "Attribution quality", "description": "Preserve the origin and limits of every personal attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-source-and-correction", "name": "Claim source and correction", "description": "Distinguish self-report, clinical interpretation, third-party allegation, and automated inference; keep conflicts visible and unsupported claims correctable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who made the attribution, from what evidence, and for what assessment purpose?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-source-and-correction-q01" }, { "text": "Which conclusions exceed the evidence and should be withheld, corrected, or reviewed?", "kind": "action", "id": "claim-source-and-correction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "clinical-disorder-boundary", "name": "Clinical disorder boundary", "description": "Separate the attraction description from a qualified determination of pedophilic disorder.", "rationale": "Clinical criteria must be applied explicitly rather than silently attaching a disorder diagnosis to an attraction label.", "layers": [ { "id": "framework-specific-assessment", "name": "Framework-specific assessment", "description": "Identify the diagnostic authority, version, and assessor responsible for a determination.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-requirements", "name": "Diagnostic requirements", "description": "Record the applicable duration, age, age-difference, and additional clinical requirements without treating them as universal across frameworks. The distinction and DSM-5-TR requirements are summarized in the [Merck Manual clinical reference](https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/paraphilias-and-paraphilic-disorders/pedophilic-disorder).", "questions": [ { "text": "Which diagnostic framework and version governs this assessment, and which requirements remain unassessed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "diagnostic-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "Has a qualified clinician evaluated developmental exclusions and documented a conclusion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnostic-requirements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "distress-and-function", "name": "Distress and function", "description": "Represent the person's difficulties without assigning every difficulty to the attraction.", "findings": [ { "id": "impact-and-attribution", "name": "Impact and attribution", "description": "Record distress, functional difficulties, and their assessed causes separately, including uncertainty about stigma, intrusive fears, urges, and co-occurring conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What distress or functional difficulty is reported, over what interval, and using what assessment method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "impact-and-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which impacts are clinically attributed to the attraction pattern, and which have unresolved or separate causes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "impact-and-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "behavior-and-child-safety", "name": "Behavior and child safety", "description": "Represent relevant conduct and actionable safety concerns independently of attraction and diagnosis.", "rationale": "An agent needs evidence about current circumstances to support protection without presuming either offending or safety from a diagnostic label.", "layers": [ { "id": "behavioral-separation", "name": "Behavioral separation", "description": "Link relevant events while preserving their distinct evidential and legal status.", "findings": [ { "id": "conduct-record-boundary", "name": "Conduct record boundary", "description": "Record relevant behavior through references to appropriate case records; absence of disclosed behavior is not proof of absence, and attraction alone does not establish an offense.", "questions": [ { "text": "What relevant conduct is reported or documented, and is each account an allegation, self-report, verified event, or adjudicated finding?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conduct-record-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which details belong in a linked abuse or legal case model rather than this attraction model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conduct-record-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "current-safety-response", "name": "Current safety response", "description": "Identify circumstances requiring timely human safeguarding assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "urgent-concerns-and-protection", "name": "Urgent concerns and protection", "description": "Record current disclosures of intent, planning, access to children, difficulty maintaining control, and available protective measures; do not generate a numerical risk estimate without an appropriate validated assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What concrete, current evidence indicates a child may be at risk, and when was that evidence assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "urgent-concerns-and-protection-q01" }, { "text": "Which immediate protective action and qualified human escalation are appropriate under the applicable safeguarding procedure?", "kind": "action", "id": "urgent-concerns-and-protection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care-and-information-boundaries", "name": "Care and information boundaries", "description": "Support access to help while governing sensitive attribution and disclosure.", "rationale": "Useful action requires both a feasible care pathway and clear limits on how intimate information is recorded and shared.", "layers": [ { "id": "specialist-support", "name": "Specialist support", "description": "Connect identified needs to qualified services and reviewable goals.", "findings": [ { "id": "care-goals-and-follow-through", "name": "Care goals and follow-through", "description": "Record agreed goals such as preventing harm, managing distress, and maintaining safe behavior; link treatment decisions to clinicians and avoid promising elimination of attraction.", "questions": [ { "text": "What help is sought, and which specialist service can assess the person's needs and eligibility?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-goals-and-follow-through-q01" }, { "text": "Which agreed outcomes will be reviewed, by whom, and at what interval?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "care-goals-and-follow-through-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "confidentiality-and-disclosure", "name": "Confidentiality and disclosure", "description": "Limit recording and sharing to an established purpose and applicable authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "sensitive-attribution-governance", "name": "Sensitive attribution governance", "description": "Record necessary access limits, correction routes, and context-specific disclosure obligations; do not treat attraction alone as a universal reporting trigger.", "questions": [ { "text": "What information is necessary for the stated care or safeguarding purpose, and who is authorized to receive it?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sensitive-attribution-governance-q01" }, { "text": "What verified jurisdictional and professional rule governs any disclosure in these circumstances?", "kind": "action", "id": "sensitive-attribution-governance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Exclusive pedophilia (sexual interest confined to prepubescent children)", "Non-exclusive pedophilia (interest in both prepubescent children and physically mature adults)", "Sex-of-child preference: boys, girls, or both", "Pedophilic disorder (acted on, or causing marked distress or impairment) versus pedophilic sexual interest without disorder", "Infantophilia / nepiophilia (preference concentrated on infants or toddlers), treated in some clinical writing as a subtype", "Preferential pedophilic orientation versus situational or opportunistic sexual interest in a child without that orientation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q186584", "note": "Item for pedophilia as the sexual-age preference / clinical concept." }, { "scheme": "ICD-11 MMS", "value_or_pattern": "6D32", "note": "Pedophilic disorder." }, { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "F65.4", "note": "Pedophilia, under disorders of sexual preference." }, { "scheme": "DSM-5-TR", "value_or_pattern": "302.2 (F65.4)", "note": "Pedophilic Disorder; same ICD-10-CM code as F65.4." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D010378", "note": "Pedophilia." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "DSM-5-TR Pedophilic Disorder criteria - American Psychiatric Association", "ICD-11 6D32 Pedophilic disorder - World Health Organization", "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, arts. 19 and 34 (protection from sexual exploitation and abuse) - United Nations", "Optional Protocol to the CRC on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography - United Nations", "Domestic criminal law on sexual activity with children and on child sexual abuse material (legislatures; age of consent and the legal meaning of 'child' are not the same as prepubescence)", "Mandatory child-abuse reporting duties for clinicians and other designated professionals - typically state, provincial, or national statute, not a feature of the diagnosis itself" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Psychiatric diagnosis and treatment planning (psychotherapy, sometimes anti-androgen or SSRI medication) for people who meet disorder criteria or seek help for the preference.", "Forensic mental-health evaluation of people charged with sexual offences against children, including whether a pedophilic preference is present.", "Structured risk and interest assessment in offending samples (e.g. Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests; actuarial tools such as Static-99R used on the offence, not as a diagnosis of pedophilia).", "Prevention programmes aimed at non-offending people with pedophilic interest (the best-known public example is Germany's Prevention Project Dunkelfeld).", "Child-protection, policing, and CSAM investigation, which target acts and material, not the psychiatric label.", "Research using self-report, viewing-time, and phallometric (penile plethysmography) methods to study age preference as distinct from offending." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Duration of the sexual-interest pattern (DSM threshold)", "typical_range": "≥6 months for diagnosis", "unit": "months" }, { "quantity": "Age of the person being diagnosed", "typical_range": "≥16 (DSM); pattern described as persistent in adulthood", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "Age difference versus the child in the diagnostic criterion", "typical_range": "≥5", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "Developmental stage of the preferred body type", "typical_range": "Tanner stage 1 (prepubescent); generally age 13 or younger", "unit": "Tanner stage" }, { "quantity": "Community prevalence of pedophilic interest in adult men", "typical_range": "uncertain; published estimates often on the order of about 0.5-5%, methods contested", "unit": "percent of adult men" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Equating pedophilia (an age preference) with child sexual abuse (a criminal act): many people who sexually offend against children are not pedophilic, and a pedophilic preference can exist without known offending.", "Harm to children if sexual urges are acted on, including contact abuse and use of child sexual abuse material.", "Diagnostic overreach: labelling hebephilic interest (early-pubescent bodies) or legal-age adolescent attraction as pedophilia.", "Under-detection and concealment in clinical and forensic settings because of stigma and legal risk.", "Stigma and mandatory-reporting regimes that deter non-offending people from seeking treatment.", "Unreliable assessment (denied self-report; laboratory-specific phallometric cutoffs; viewing-time methods with false positives).", "Policy failure modes: treating the diagnosis as destiny in civil commitment, registration, or extra-legal vigilantism." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Spelling and lay usage: pedophilia (US) vs paedophilia (UK and much of the Commonwealth); popular speech often uses the word for any sexual offence against a minor.", "Legal 'child' is set by age of consent, commonly 14-18, so it is wider than prepubescence; the same sexual-age preference can therefore sit inside or outside criminal law depending on the jurisdiction and the other person's age.", "DSM-5-TR dominates US clinical and much research practice; ICD-10/ICD-11 dominate coding in most other health systems, with ICD-11 requiring a sustained arousal pattern involving prepubertal children.", "Help-seeking: Germany's Dunkelfeld model offers confidential prevention treatment; in many US and similar jurisdictions, broad mandatory reporting makes anonymous clinical help harder.", "Hebephilia is used in some forensic debates (notably North America) but is not a DSM-5-TR diagnosis and is not the same ICD-11 entity as pedophilic disorder." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Hebephilia", "difference": "Sexual-age preference for early-pubescent bodies (roughly Tanner 2-3, often about 11-14), not prepubescent Tanner 1; not a DSM-5-TR diagnosis." }, { "name": "Ephebophilia", "difference": "Preference for mid-to-late adolescents (post-pubertal), not prepubescent children." }, { "name": "Child sexual abuse / sexual offending against children", "difference": "A behaviour and a crime; test is whether a sexual act or exploitation occurred, not whether a persistent prepubescent age preference is present." }, { "name": "Incest", "difference": "Defined by kinship, not by the child's developmental stage; an incest offence may or may not involve pedophilic preference." }, { "name": "Statutory sexual offences with post-pubertal adolescents", "difference": "Turn on legal age of consent and the adolescent's chronological age, not on a preference for prepubescent bodies." }, { "name": "Child sexual abuse material offending (as a legal category)", "difference": "Possession or distribution of prohibited images is a criminal classification; it correlates with pedophilic interest in research samples but is not the diagnosis." }, { "name": "Teleiophilia with situational offending", "difference": "Primary sexual preference for adults, with opportunistic or antisocial sexual behaviour toward a child; separated by evidence of persistent prepubescent age preference (history, self-report, or valid phallometric/viewing-time findings)." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the registry's ACT / ACT.ACT placement be retained with an explicit attraction-pattern interpretation, or does its ontology require a different classification?", "Which diagnostic framework and version should govern each deployment, particularly its duration requirements, developmental exclusions, and distress criteria?", "Which assessment methods are sufficiently validated for the intended population, especially help-seeking people without known offenses and older adolescents?", "Which locally available specialist services and safeguarding procedures can be verified, including their confidentiality and reporting rules?", "Which outcomes can responsibly indicate improved well-being and maintained child safety without treating changes in attraction, behavior, and assessed risk as interchangeable?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }