The preliminary results of this research indicate that offenders often share a repertoire of rationalizations, denials, distortions, and minimizations to justify their deviance. They also use a false logic to shift the responsibility from themselves to their victims. The strength of their belief in their false logic depends on whether they are antisocial offenders, compulsive-chronic offenders, or something in between. In addition, they have easy access to victims in part because of societal denial that sexual abuse is a prevalent crime and denial of the harm that it inflicts on victims. Moreover, the system designed to protect victims is often ineffective as a result of its own disordered thinking on the subject and its tendency to treat child sex abusers more leniently than other offenders.