Child Pornography: Model Legislation and Global Review
- Document number
- 2577
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Child Pornography: Model Legislation and Global Review
- Author/publisher
- International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- A greater number of child molesters are now using computer technology to organize, maintain, and increase the size of their child pornography collections. Personally‐manufactured illegal images of children are especially valuable on the Internet, and oftentimes molesters will trade images of their own sexual exploits. When these images reach cyberspace, they are irretrievable and can continue to circulate forever; thus, the child is revictimized as the images are viewed again and again. The Internet has created an exciting, new world of information and communication for anyone with access to online services. While this technology offers unparalleled opportunities for children and adults to learn about the universe in which we live, it has also had an immeasurable impact on the sexual exploitation of children, specifically through the distribution of sexually exploitive images of children. The development, increasing accessibility, and use of home‐computer technology have revolutionized the distribution of these images by increasing the ease of possession and dissemination and decreasing the cost of production and distribution, especially across international borders.
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