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Author: Carissa Byrne Hessick
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2016-05-10
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0472119761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegal experts, sociologists, and social workers debate the definition of child pornography, the punishment of offenders, and the protection of victims
Author: Ian O'Donnell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1135846359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the enduring appeal of child pornography and its ramifications for criminal justice systems around the world. It is based on an extensive review of academic literature and newspaper coverage, a trawl of websites frequented by those with a sexual interest in children, a survey of how police investigate these offences, examination of prosecutors' decisions, and interviews with judges. It provides a framework for understanding the contemporary nature of this problem, especially the harms it causes, its intimate relationship with new technologies and the challenges it poses to law enforcement authorities. The internet plays a pivotal role. Its sheer size, the anarchic way it grows, the lack of any boundaries to its expansion and its disregard for national borders make it a legal environment without parallel. An unwavering focus on the threat of sexual abuse has contributed to the emergence of a context where routine dealings with children are viewed through a 'paedophilic' lens. This can have the unfortunate consequence of distracting attention from more urgent concerns (such as poverty and neglect), which make children vulnerable to sexual exploitation. In this way an emphasis on the sexualisation of children could be said to aggravate the problem that it sets out to address. The book: provides a comprehensive analysis of child pornography issues in all of their complexity, including legal, psychological, criminal justice and social perspectives. presents significant volume of original empirical data gathered from police, prosecutors and judges. includes new qualitative and quantitative information set against a background of shifting international developments. The analysis is explicitly comparative. draws on a variety of sources including support groups for paedophiles, newspaper coverage of court cases involving child pornography, victim testimony and police operations.
Author: Alisdair A. Gillespie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1136733825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild Pornography: Law and Policy draws on interdisciplinary work in order to critically address the law relating to child pornography. Child pornography is recognized as a specific form of child abuse and there are now many national, and international, efforts to tackle it. Yet despite these efforts, the volume of child pornography, particularly on the internet, is increasing. The law has reacted to this situation by adapting its definitions, increasing sentences and providing new powers to law enforcement. It is, however, unclear how far the law should extend. What should the relationship be between criminalization and free-speech? Is there a link between the "use" of child pornography and contact offending? The issue of child pornography has been the subject of considerable literature in the areas of psychology, sociology and psychiatry. These studies provide the basis for a greater understanding of the nature of child pornography, as well as the profiles and behaviour of those who access or produce such material. Child Pornography: Law and Policy brings this wider literature to bear on the legal and policy frameworks relating to child pornography, questioning both the appropriateness and the effectiveness of the law in this context.
Author: Philip Jenkins
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0814742637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJenkins looks at the first amendment and how it should be applied to child pornography on the internet.
Author: Yaman Akdeniz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-23
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1317113659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a critical assessment of the problem of internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The internet raises novel and complex challenges to existing regulatory regimes. Efforts towards legal harmonization at the European Union, Council of Europe, and United Nations level are examined in this context and the utility of additional and alternative methods of regulation explored. This book argues that effective implementation, enforcement and harmonization of laws could substantially help to reduce the availability and dissemination of child pornography on the internet. At the same time, panic-led policies must be avoided if the wider problems of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are to be meaningfully addressed.
Author: Ethel Quayle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 113545292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the reality behind the often hysterical media coverage of child pornography, particularly that available via the internet.
Author: Monique M. Ferraro
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0121631052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Investigating Child Exploitation: The Internet, The Law and Forensic Science is a pioneering interdisciplinary work. This book brings together all the information that prosecutors, investigators, forensic computer analysts, information technology professionals and students need to understand and solve these complex crimes. Real-life examples help to guide the reader through the often multi-layered, technology driven field of investigating and prosecuting Internet-related child exploitation."--
Author: Ethel Quayle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1135452911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild pornography, particularly that available via the Internet, has become a cause of huge social concern in recent years. This book examines the reality behind the often hysterical media coverage of the topic. Drawing on extensive new research findings, it examines how child pornography is used on the Internet and the social context in which such use occurs, and develops a model of offending behaviour to better help understand and deal with the processes of offending. Detailed case studies and offenders' own accounts are used to illustrate the processes involved in offending and treatment. The authors argue that we need to refine our ideas of offending, and that while severe deterrents need to be associated with possession of child pornography, a better understanding is needed of the links between possession and committing a contact offence. Only by improving our understanding of this complex and very controversial topic can we hope to deal effectively with offenders and with their child victims. This is a book which will become an essential read for anyone involved with offenders or victims from a psychological, judicial or social background.
Author: Tim Tate
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Suzanne Ost
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-05-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1139489569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChild pornography and sexual grooming provide case study exemplars of problems that society and law have sought to tackle to avoid both actual and potential harm to children. Yet despite the considerable legal, political and societal concern that these critical phenomena attract, they have not, thus far, been subjected to detailed socio-legal and theoretical scrutiny. How do society and law construct the harms of child pornography and grooming? What impact do constructions of the child have upon legal and societal responses to these phenomena? What has been the impetus behind the expanding criminalisation of behaviour in these areas? Suzanne Ost addresses these and other important questions, exploring the critical tensions within legal and social discourses which must be tackled to discourage moral panic reactions towards child pornography and grooming, and advocating a new, more rational approach towards combating these forms of exploitation.
