Inhibition and attentional control in pedophilic child sexual offenders – An event-related potential study

Deficits in response inhibition and attentional control as impairment of executive functions have been presumed to play a role in child sexual abuse by pedophiles, as primarily revealed by neuropsychological testing of such individuals (Eastvold et al., 2011; Joyal et al., 2014; Schiffer and Vonlaufen, 2011; Suchy et al., 2009). Pedophilic and non-pedophilic child molesters showed e.g. increased false alarm rates in a Go/Nogo-task, as compared to both healthy and forensic controls (Schiffer and Vonlaufen, 2011).

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