Overview

And how do these experiences affect these victims upon reaching adulthood?

Summary

From a treatment perspective, it is often more difficult to talk about victim empathy with individuals who are internet only offenders that possessed child pornography but do not have hands on offenders.  They can have a harder time understanding how they caused harm to the children in the images as they did not create the images but “simply” viewed them.

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Overview

The landscape of the production of child pornography production has changed drastically over the decade from 2010 to 2020. How do these changes affect sentencing for federal production cases?

Summary

The latest in a series of reports published by the United States Sentencing Commission involves cases of child pornography production from fiscal year 2019.  As there is very little research regarding child pornography production, this is a welcome report.  It is also one of the few reports that address the changing nature of child pornography production, which includes production of these images or videos in a remote fashion without contact offending. 

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Overview

A glimpse into the data behind the Production and Trading of CSEM (Child Sexual Exploitation Material).

This research summary highlights data from a collaborative study. Collaboration was between the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and several well-known researchers.

It discusses the typical relationship of abusers and their victims.

It also covers escalating severity of depravity depicted in Child Sexual Exploitation Materials.

Summary

In 2018, a collaboration study between the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and several well-known researchers in the field of sexual offending was published. The study used the data available in the NCMEC database to come to an updated understanding of Child Sexual Exploitation Materials. The study’s stated objective was to develop current knowledge so they could assist law enforcement in identifying victims of sexual abuse as well as trying to intervene and hopefully prevent sexual abuse. 

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Overview

How do studies done by the NCMEC and the Australian Institute for Criminology impact sentencing for production or distribution of Child Pornography by parents?

Summary

A new study was recently published by the Australian Government’s Institute of Criminology (2021). It looked at child sexual abuse material that was produced by parental figures. 

This study expanded on a collaborative study done in 2018 in cooperation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 

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