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They may find scenes of rape sexually arousing. They may find that sexual involvement with children is more emotionally satisfying than involvement with adults. They may be inadequate, have poor social skills, or be in other circumstances where they feel that they are unable to achieve any consensual involvement with an adult. Any or all of these explanations may apply in any one case. Second, offenders must overcome the factors which would inhibit their becoming sexually abusive. These inhibitors are of two sorts: internal and external belief systems which discourage rape or sexual involvement with children, and practical circumstances which prevent such involvement easily taking place.

It was originally devised as an explanation of child sexual abuse, but can easily be applied to abuse of adults too. It has four stages: motivation; overcoming internal inhibitors; overcoming external inhibitors; and overcoming the resistance of the victim. An offender must pass through all these stages if an offence is to take place. First, offenders need to be motivated to become sexually involved with the victim. They may, for example, be sexually aroused by children, whether or not they are also aroused by adults.

33 The belief that many reports of sexual crime are false and mendacious—a belief sustained by the press tendency to report a disproportionately large percentage of cases where apparent victims have lied34— appears deeply ingrained in the police. Other police policies can inflate the figures. The quarterly figures issued by the Metropolitan Police on 13 September 1990 appeared to show a 5 per cent rise in the level of sexual offending in London in the third quarter of 1990. However, a closer analysis of the figures revealed that the increase was almost entirely the result of a police surveillance operation on a single public toilet in Slough.

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