TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wortley, Richard
AU  - Smallbone, Stephen
TI  - Internet child pornography: causes, investigation, and prevention 
SN  - 9780313381799
AV  - HQ 471 .W67 2012 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - California
PB  - Praeger, 
KW  - CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
KW  - INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY
KW  - CHILD PORNOGRAPHY--LAW AND LEGISLATION
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Series foreword -- Before the internet -- Enter the internet -- Who are the offenders? -- Investigating child pornography -- Impacts of internet child pornography -- Prevention: Offenders and victim -- Prevention: The internt and related technologies -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
N2  - There is no doubt that child pornography on the Internet is a serious and escalating problem. Some estimates are that up to 20 percent of pornography on the Internet involves depictions of minors, 90 percent of whom appear to be under the age of 12 years. Some offenders have been arrested with collections of up to one million images. The role of the Internet in fueling the problem of child pornography is enormous. Prior to the Internet, child pornography was typically locally produced, of poor quality, expensive, and difficult to obtain. U.S. law enforcement officials were able to boast in the late 1970s that the traffic in child pornography had virtually been eliminated. The advent of the Internet in the 1980s made vast quantities of child pornography instantly available in the privacy of the viewer's home. Today, the child pornography problem largely exists because of the opportunities provided by the Internet. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issue by describing the problem of child pornography, examining the impact of the Internet, and presenting a profile of users. With this foundation in place, the authors then address responses to child pornography and shed light on the complexities of dealing with criminal activities that are perpetrated largely online -- for example, the fact that people behave differently in online environments than they do in other areas of their lives. The book examines prevention efforts designed to reduce access to child pornography, law enforcement responses designed to catch known offenders, and treatment responses designed to reduce reoffending
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