Child pornography involves the realisation of deviant fantasies with very specific characteristics with regard to its content and use and therefore the legal action needed to deal with it. The internet has facilitated its dissemination and access and complicates the issue but we need to be able to identify and track people who use illegal pornography. This paper is based on a review of the literature and presents some criminological characteristics of child pornography on the internet.
BurkeASowerbuttsSBlundellB, et al.
Child pornography and the Internet: policing and treatment issues. Psychiatry Psychol Law2002;
9: 79–84.
2.
KroneT.International police operations against online child pornography.
Canberra:
AIC, 2005, pp. 1–6.
3.
PratSJonasC.How to catch child pornographers in France? The entrapment.Leg Med2012;
14: 276–277.
4.
QuayleETaylorM (ed) Abuse images and the Internet. In: Viewing child pornography in the Internet. Lyme Regis: Russell House, 2005, pp. 1–11.
5.
TateT.The child pornography industry: international trade in child sexual abuse. In: CItzin (ed) Pornography: Women, Violence and Civil Liberties.
New York:
Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 203–216.
6.
TaylorM (ed) Child pornography: an Internet crime.
New York:
Brunner-Routledge, 2003.
7.
TaylorMQuayleEHollandG.Typology of paedophile picture collections. Police J2001;
74: 97–107.
8.
WolakJFinkelhorDMitchellK.Child pornography possessors: trends in offender and case characteristics.Sex Abuse2011;
23: 22–42.
9.
IacubM (ed) Les héritages de l’obscénité: de l’indécence à la pédopornographie. In: Pornographie en Amérique. Paris: Fayard, 2010, pp. 233–287.
10.
MirkinH.The social, political, and legal construction of the concept of child pornography.J Homosex2009;
56: 233–267.
11.
KleinhansC.Virtual child porn: the law and the semiotics of the image. J Vis Cult2004;
3: 17–34.
12.
RosenbloomAL.Inaccuracy of age assessment from images of postpubescent subjects in cases of alleged child pornography.Int J Legal Med2013;
127: 467–471.
13.
StathopuluEAntony HulseJCanningD.Difficulties with age estimation of internet images of south-east Asian girls. Child Abuse Rev2003;
12: 46–57.
14.
KroneT.A typology of online child pornography offending.
Canberra:
AIC, 2004, pp. 1–4.
15.
PratSBertschIChudzikL, et al.
Developing software to estimate age in child pornography images for forensic purposes: relevance and limitations in psychocriminology. J Forensic Sci2013;
58: 845–846.
16.
BourkeMLHernandezAE.The “Butner study” redux: a report of the incidence of hands-on child victimization by child pornography offenders. J Fam Violence2008;
24: 183–191.
17.
BurgessAWHartmanCR.Sexually motivated child abductors: forensic evaluation.J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv2005;
43: 22–28.
18.
ElliottIABeechARMandeville-NordenR, et al.
Psychological profiles of internet sexual offenders: comparisons with contact sexual offenders.Sex Abuse2009;
21: 76–92.
19.
FortinFRoyJ.Profils des consommateurs de pornographie juvénile arrêtés au Québec: l’explorateur, le pervers et le polymorphe. Criminologie2006;
39: 107–128.
20.
EndrassJUrbaniokFHammermeisterLC, et al.
The consumption of Internet child pornography and violent and sex offending.BMC Psychiatr2009;
9: 43.
21.
BerkowitzCD.Child pornography: legal and medical considerations.Adv Pediatr2009;
56: 203–218.
22.
BurgessAWMahoneyMViskJ, et al.
Cyber child sexual exploitation.J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv2008;
46: 38–45.
PratSSauvagetABouyssyM.Réflexion psychopathologique sur la pédopornographie: le fantasme de l’altérité. Evol Psychiatr2011;
76: 323–329.
25.
FreiAErenayNDittmannV, et al.
Paedophilia on the Internet – a study of 33 convicted offenders in the Canton of Lucerne.Swiss Med Wkly2005;
135: 488–494.
26.
QuayleEHollandGLinehanC, et al.
The Internet and offending behaviour: a case study. J Sex Aggress2000;
6: 78–96.
27.
BeechARElliottIABirgdenA, et al.
The Internet and child sexual offending: a criminological review. Aggress Violent Behav2008;
13: 216–228.
28.
MarshallWL.Revisiting the use of pornography by sexual offenders: implications for theory and practice. J Sex Aggress2000;
6: 67–67.
29.
BriggsPSimonWTSimonsenS.An exploratory study of Internet-initiated sexual offenses and the chat room sex offender: has the Internet enabled a new typology of sex offender?Sex Abuse2011;
23: 72–91.
30.
ChaseEStathamJ.Commercial and sexual exploitation of children and young people in the UK? A review. Child Abuse Rev2005;
14: 4–25.
31.
MitchellKJJonesLMFinkelhorD, et al.
Internet-facilitated commercial sexual exploitation of children: findings from a nationally representative sample of law enforcement agencies in the United States.Sex Abuse2010;
23: 43–71.
32.
QuayleETaylorM.Model of problematic internet use in people with a sexual interest in children.Cyberpsychology Behav2003;
6: 93–106.
33.
TylerRPStoneLE.Child pornography: perpetuating the sexual victimization of children. Child Abuse Negl1985;
9: 313–318.
34.
SetoMCHansonRK.Introduction to special issue on Internet-facilitated sexual offending.Sex Abuse2011;
23: 3–6.
35.
GuanS-SASubrahmanyamK.Youth Internet use: risks and opportunities.Curr Opin Psychiatr2009;
22: 351–356.
36.
QuayleE.The impact of viewing on offending behaviour. In: MCCalder (ed) Child sex abuse Internet tackling new front.
Lyme Regis:
Russell House, 2004, pp. 25–36.
37.
NielssenOO’DeaJSullivanD, et al.
Child pornography offenders detected by surveillance of the Internet and by other methods.Crim Behav Ment Health2011;
21: 215–224.
