14 Online Crimes: Child Pornography and Paedophilia
This chapter again focuses on online crimes. This time the focus is on (1) those who access and/or trade child pornography images but who have no history or seeming motivation to engage in hands‐on sexual abuse with children and (2) those who access and trade child pornography and use the Internet to facilitate hands‐on sexual contact with children through grooming. We will consider the relationship between child pornography and hands‐on child sexual abuse in relation to those in category (2) and also the likelihood of those in category (1) exhibiting the offender behaviour characteristic of (2) as a result of their interest in viewing child pornography. In addition, we will consider ...
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