investigating child exploitation and pornography the internet, law and forensic science

[...]... examining the scope of the problem and providing a foundation for the rest of the book The history of child exploitation and the way technology is used to facilitate it are explored A section on how child protection laws developed in the United States and abroad is followed by a brief summary of the book’s structure and contents The online child exploitation discussed in this book has two faces: child pornography, ... measures to prevent: (c) The exploitative use of children in pornographic performances and materials.” (Convention Article 34 1989) Canada added to its obscenity law in 1993, outlawing the possession of child pornography According to Persky and Dixon, the impetus behind the child pornography possession law was the feminist legal theory of Catherine MacKinnon (Persky and Dixon 2001; American Booksellers... victims via the Internet This book explores how the Internet has created an unlimited and barely regulated trade in child pornography and has opened the floodgates to the free exchange among child molesters Sex offenders who prefer to have sex with children have nearly unlimited access to children when they use the Internet Not only do sex offenders have free access to children and to child pornography. .. extensively on the global history of child abuse In The History of Childhood, he details the experiences of children in India and China as particularly abusive In India, children were regularly masturbated by their mothers, and adults used children sexually long before they reached the age of ten Growing up in China was equally cruel Both male and female children were sexually assaulted and forced into... impunity Similarly, child pornography also increasingly was found on videotape and circulated in that form Ann Wolbert Burgess and her colleagues brought the issue to the academic and legal communities for the first time The following is a brief excerpt from Child Pornography and Sex Rings describing the availability of child pornography in Chicago in the late 1970s: 2 3 4 Thomas Edison showed the first motion... issues At the turn of the twentieth century, the primary concerns of the movement were gaining the right for women to vote and protecting children through child labor laws The suffragists shifted their focus to prohibition in the 1920s The women’s movement in the 1960s and early 1970s advocated for an Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, reproductive rights, creation and enforcement... child exploitation case This work fills this void, providing OVERVIEW police, prosecutors, and forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation in particular, child pornography and enticing minors to engage in sexual activity using the Internet In addition to providing guidance on the technical and legal aspects of child exploitation. .. for child pornography; and 25 percent of arrests were for solicitations of undercover officers posing as minors Among all of the offenders, two thirds possessed child pornography The overwhelming majority of the child pornography that the arrestees possessed depicted children under the age of twelve (83 percent) and explicitly showed the sexual penetration of a minor (80 percent) (Wolak, Mitchell, and. .. X U A L E X P L O I TAT I O N The history of childhood has been a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken The further back in history one goes and the further away from OVERVIEW the West one gets the more massive the neglect and cruelty one finds and the more likely children are to have been killed, rejected, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused by their caretakers (deMause 1998)... study their targets They know where children of their preferred age group will be and what sorts of things interest them Before the Internet, preferential sex offenders haunted the citizens band and ham radio The technology lent itself to use by children It enabled communication with many people at the same time and did not require a minimum age to use it Sitting in his or her own living room, a child . h1" alt="" INVESTIGATING CHILD EXPLOITATION AND PORNOGRAPHY This page intentionally left blank INVESTIGATING CHILD EXPLOITATION AND PORNOGRAPHY: THE INTERNET, THE LAW AND FORENSIC SCIENCE Monique. IV THE LAW OF INTERNET CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION 13. Child Pornography 227 13.1 Evolution of Child Pornography Law Post-Ferber 235 13.2 Possessing Child Pornography Can Be Prohibited 236 13.3 The. Technology and Child Exploitation 9 1.5 Technology and Preferential Sex Offenders 15 1.6 Development of Child Pornography Law 16 1.7 International: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child