[M]en charged with Internet child pornography offenses and those who commit hands-on child sex offenses are, in many cases, one and the same.
"There is this assumption—in the treatment context, in courtrooms, in investigative circles and in the assessment literature—that these are dichotomous groups," says [Michael] Bourke, Chief Psychologist of the U.S. Marshals Service, who conducted the research with [Andres] Hernandez between 2002 to 2005 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, N.C. "However, in the course of treatment, these men would disclose to us that their use of the Internet was not the limit of their sexual acting out—it was in fact an adjunctive behavior."
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