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4.7 - Internet sexual offending

from Part IV - Psychology and criminal behaviour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2010

Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Elizabeth A. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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The broader definition of internet offending clearly overlaps with cybercrime but a more narrow definition of internet offending has as its focus sexual crimes against children. One of the functions of child pornography for internet offenders is that it is used in relation to sexual fantasy (Quayle and Taylor) and this had led to the assumptions that it leads to further offending behaviour. However, Sheldon and Howitt, found no clear link between sexual fantasy content and offending behaviour. All the same, it has been strongly argued that effective implementation, enforcement and harmonization of child pornography laws could help to reduce the availability and dissemination of child pornography on the internet. However, an attempt to generate 'grooming laws' has been problematic. It is also the case that grooming implies intent to meet the child in the offline world to commit a contact offence.
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Print publication year: 2010

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