Editorial: Child pornography

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...

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...

Defining Child Pornography: Law Enforcement Dilemmas in Investigations of Internet Child Pornography Possession1

This study examines law enforcement dilemmas in child pornography possession investigations in which no offender was arrested. A mail survey of US law enforcement agencies identified a sample of Internet child pornography possession cases where no arrest was made. Telephone surveys with law enforcement investigators were used to collect casespecific data and information on dilemmas in these inv...

New Exchange Model for Child Pornography Analysis

This research concentrates around the topic of the criminal exchange of child pornography material on the Internet. The existing scientific material on this criminal exchange lacks technical details that could help police detectives work more efficiently in child pornography cases. This paper specifies a new criminal exchange model of child pornography that describes (1) the current child porno...

Child pornography: legal and medical considerations.