Child Pornography
Crime, Computers and Society

Explores the appeal of child pornography and its ramifications for criminal justice systems around the world. This book provides a framework for understanding the contemporary nature of this problem, especially the harms it causes, its intimate relationship with technologies and the challenges it poses to law enforcement authorities.

In this way an emphasis on the sexualisation of children could be said to aggravate the problem that it sets out to address.This book provides a comprehensive analysis of child pornography issues in all of their complexity, including legal, psychological, criminal justice and social perspectives. It presents significant volume of original empirical data gathered from police, prosecutors and judges. It includes new qualitative and quantitative information set against a background of shifting international developments. The analysis is explicitly comparative. It draws on a variety of sources including support groups for paedophiles, newspaper coverage of court cases involving child pornography, victim testimony and police operations.

Part I: Understanding the Context
1. The enduring appeal of child pornography
2. The role of the Internet
3. Why does it matter?
Part II: A National Case Study
4. Ireland in focus
Part III: Formulating a Response
5. Policing: challenges and
6. Prosecuting and punishing
7. Where to from here?
References
Index.