Child and Adolescent Pornography Exposure

Child Pornography on the Internet

Introduction A trans-border medium such as the Internet that has no regard for frontiers and national states will inevitably result in conflicting opinions in public morality and ethics. Sexual deviation and variation in one country may not be tolerated in another country. For example, Italy is less tolerant to homosexuality, in contrast to Sweden that has a liberal view and even allows homosex...

Identification of High-Resolution Images of Child and Adolescent Pornography at Crime Scenes

In several countries, the possession of files containing child and adolescent pornography is a crime. Law-enforcement officers must be able to detect this type of content at crime scenes. The NuDetective Forensic Tool was developed to assist forensic examiners in the timely identification of such files at crime scenes. NuDetective automatically detects nudity in images and employs other techniq...

Child pornography: legal and medical considerations.

Automatic detection of child pornography

The ability to automatically identify and classify child pornography has been a problem for researchers in recent times and an issue that law enforcement agencies have faced since the beginning of digital trafficking of child pornography. In this research in progress paper the researcher outlines the importance of automating child pornography identification for law enforcement, reviews literatu...

Undetected and detected child sexual abuse and child pornography offenders.

Current knowledge about risk factors for child sexual abuse and child pornography offenses is based on samples of convicted offenders, i.e., detected offenders. Only few studies focus on offenders not detected by the criminal justice system. In this study, a sample of 345 self-referred pedophiles and hebephiles was recruited from the community. All participants met DSM-IV-TR criteria for pedoph...