Child Pornography: An Internet Crime

by Quayle,Ethel

• ISBN13: 9781583912447
• ISBN10: 1583912444
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-04-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Does the Internet engender sexual abuse of children? How do you identify sex offenders on the Internet? The availability of child pornography on the Internet has become a cause of huge social concern in recent years. This book considers the reality behind the often-hysterical media coverage of the topic. Drawing on extensive new research findings, this book examines how child pornography is used on the Internet, identifies the social context in which such uses occur, and develops a model of offending behavior to better help understand and deal with the processes of offending. Detailed interviews and offenders' own accounts are used to illustrate the processes involved in offending and treatment. Arguing that we need to refine our ideas of offending, and that while severe deterrents need to be associated with possession of child pornography, the authors contend that a better comprehension is needed of the links between possession and committing a contact offence. This book is anessential read for anyone involved with offenders or victims, from a psychological, judicial or social background.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Foreword	ix
1 Introduction	1	(20)
2 The nature of child pornography	21	(26)
3 Adult sexual interest in children	47	(27)
4 The Internet, child pornography and adult sexual interest in children	74	(23)
5 Metamorphosis	97	(23)
6 A virtual community	120	(28)
7 The process of collecting	148	(23)
8 A model of problematic Internet use	171	(20)
9 Issues for concern and conclusions	191	(23)
References	214	(12)
Index	226