What is it about?
The aim of this article is straightforward and practical: by utilising elements of routine activity and rational choice theories, it explains how online child sex offenders use the Internet and what can be done to counter the challenge they pose. The discussion opens with definitions of child pornography, child erotica, child exploitation material and paedophilia. Its main objective is to promote online protection of children. It is explained that online child sex offenders and paedophiles use the Internet to create virtual communities; collect, share and trade images; tempt, seduce and groom children. Then the article explores what has been done in the Western world to combat those criminal activities. Successful campaigns against child pornography require shared responsibility and effort by parents, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), legal enforcement and the international community at large.
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Why is it important?
The paper explains how we should counter the threat of Online Child Sex Offenders
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Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet,23 and online child sex offenders use numerous tactics to evade law enforcement’s efforts to capture them. Attempts to identify administrators of these complex websites can prove exasperating for investigators. Lawenforcement agencies must be aware of the techniques that online child sex offenders use to further their illegal activities. Such knowledge is essential in order to combat this critical international problem.
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: Online Child Sex Offenders: Challenges and Counter-Measures, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, March 2013, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12006.
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