Table 2 Analysis categories for neuroimaging research on child sexual abuse offenders

Neuroimaging modality (CT/EEG/MRI/fMRI/PET)

Research interest (sexual deviancy, incest, child sex offending, paedophilia)

Scan type (e.g. brain mechanism, assessment, general, brain damage, brain differences, diagnosis or identification, neurofeedback)

Research subjects (e.g. paedophiles (self-declared, phallometrically established, psychiatrically established), (healthy or matched) control group, child sex offenders, nonsexual offenders, nonviolent nonsexual offenders, violent sex offenders, incest offenders, students and academic staff)

Setting (legal, forensic, clinical forensic, clinical, lab/research)

Nature of problem statement (e.g. clinical problem, societal problem, legal problem, scientific problem)

Prospective relevancy (clinical forensic relevancy, scientific relevancy, societal relevancy, clinical relevancy)