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Child abuse images and pornography
Child abuse images and pornography
The proliferation of ICT has facilitated the means to easily gain access to, store, trade in, or possess child pornography in the form of images or text. The networks that are developed may operate on a social or a commercial basis. Various types of images may be available, including images of children, actors made to appear as children, digitally created images of children and pictures of children manipulated ('morphed') to appear in a pornographic context. There is evidence of considerable growth in the number of people who are involved in the exchange of images compared with those involved in the original abuse.
Australia
Other countries and international
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Child pornography possessors arrested in internet-related crimes : findings from the national juvenile online victimization study (PDF 249kB)
Janis Wolak, David Finkelhor, and Kimberly J Mitchell. US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2005
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Violence against children in cyberspace : a contribution to the United Nations study on violence against children (PDF 1.58MB)
ECPAT International, 2005
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Consultation : on the possession of extreme pornographic material
Home Office and Scottish Executive, 2005
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Youth pornographic consumption : how similar and different are from other internet users (PDF 201kB)
Gustavo Mesch. Safety and security in a networked world conference : balancing cyber-rights and responsibilities, 2005
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Images of abuse : a review of the evidence on child abuse
Emma Renold and Susan J Creighton with Chris Atkinson and John Carr. National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (UK), 2003
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Internet sex crimes against minors : the response of law enforcement (PDF 226kB)
Janis Wolak, Kimberly Mitchell and David Finkelhor. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (US), 2003
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Regulation of child pornography on the internet : cases and materials
Yaman Akdeniz, 2003
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A typology of cybersexploitation and online grooming practices (PDF 162kB)
Rachel O'Connell. Cyberspace Research Unit, University of Central Lancashire, 2003
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A cybercop's guide to internet child safety (PDF 1.68MB)
Glen Klinkart, 2002
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The contribution of hotlines to combating child pornography on the internet (PDF 50kB)
Nigel Williams. Childnet International, 1999
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Freedom of information in the face of world-wide concern about the sexual abuse of children, paedophilia and pornography on the internet (PDF 367 kB)
Aidan White. UNESCO expert meeting : Sexual abuse of children, child pornography and paedophilia on the internet, 1999
