Internet Child Abuse: Current Research and Policy provides a timely overview
of international policy, legislation and offender management and treatment
practice in the area of Internet child abuse.

Internet use has grown considerably over the last five years, and information
technology now forms a core part of the formal education system in many
countries. There is however, increasing evidence that the Internet is used by
some adults to access children and young people in order to "groom" them for
the purposes of sexual abuse; as well as to produce and distribute indecent
illegal images of children.

This book presents and assesses the most recent and current research on
internet child abuse, addressing: its nature, the behaviour and treatment
of its perpetrators, international policy, legislation and protection, and
policing. It will be required reading for an international audience of
academics, researchers, policy-makers and criminal justice practitioners
with interests in this area.

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