Internet subcultures and pathways to the use of child pornography
- Authors: Prichard, Jeremy , Watters, Paul , Spiranovic, Caroline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Computer Law and Security Review Vol. 27, no. 6 (2011), p. 585-600
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- Description: With continual advances in Internet capability the child pornography market is experiencing a boom in demand and supply. Attempts to reduce the market challenge legislators, law enforcement agencies, practitioners and researchers alike - due in large part to the decentralised and global nature of the Internet. Much research has focused on frequent users of child pornography and whether such behaviour is interrelated with child sexual assaults. This article instead draws attention to onset, the first deliberate viewing of child pornography. It presents the results of a three-month study of a global Peer-to-Peer network, isoHunt. Analysis of the site's Top 300 search terms indicated that child pornography is consistently shared. Risk factors for onset are discussed, including the potential normalisation of child pornography among Internet subcultures. Strategies are discussed to encourage subcultures to inhibit child pornography use and to increase understanding of the harms associated with such material. Implications for legal systems, policy and research are explored. © 2011 Jeremy Prichard, Paul A. Watters & Caroline Spiranovic. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Patterns of ownership of child model sites : Profiling the profiteers and consumers of child exploitation material
- Authors: Watters, Paul , Lueg, Christopher , Spiranovic, Caroline , Prichard, Jeremy
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: First Monday Vol. 18, no. 2 (2013), p.
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- Description: Recent research has indicated that cybercrime thrives when a corrupt social, economic, and political environment emerges such that law enforcement impact is minimised and key elements of crime prevention are absent. In this paper, using a snowball methodology we analyse patterns of ownership of "child model" sites which generate profits from advertising and/or subscriptions. While the material may not be traditional "pornography" in content, it is arguably exploitative. An open question is how the material compares to "beauty pageant" and other highly stylised mainstream photography that depicts children in adult situations, and whether access to all such material should be restricted.
- Description: 2003010829
Young people, child pornography, and subcultural norms on the Internet
- Authors: Prichard, Jeremy , Spiranovic, Caroline , Watters, Paul , Lueg, Christopher
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Vol. 64, no. 5 (2013), p. 992-1000
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- Description: Literature to date has treated as distinct two issues (a) the influence of pornography on young people and (b) the growth of Internet child pornography, also called child exploitation material (CEM). This article discusses how young people might interact with, and be affected by, CEM. The article first considers the effect of CEM on young victims abused to generate the material. It then explains the paucity of data regarding the prevalence with which young people view CEM online, inadvertently or deliberately. New analyses are presented from a 2010 study of search terms entered on an internationally popular peer-to-peer website, isoHunt. Over 91 days, 162 persistent search terms were recorded. Most of these related to file sharing of popular movies, music, and so forth. Thirty-six search terms were categorized as specific to a youth market and perhaps a child market. Additionally, 4 deviant, and persistent search terms were found, 3 relating to CEM and the fourth to bestiality. The article discusses whether the existence of CEM on a mainstream website, combined with online subcultural influences, may normalize the material for some youth and increase the risk of onset (first deliberate viewing). Among other things, the article proposes that future research examines the relationship between onset and sex offending by youth. © 2013 ASIS&T.
- Description: 2003011027