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Young people, child pornography, and subcultural norms on the internet

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posted on 2023-05-17, 18:27 authored by Jeremy PrichardJeremy Prichard, Caroline SpiranovicCaroline Spiranovic, Watters, P, Lueg, C
Literature to date has treated as distinct two issues (a) the influence of pornography on young people and (b) the growth of Internet child pornography, also called child exploitation material (CEM). This article discusses how young people might interact with, and be affected by, CEM. The article first considers the effect of CEM on young victims abused to generate the material. It then explains the paucity of data regarding the prevalence with which young people view CEM online, inadvertently or deliberately. New analyses are presented from a 2010 study of search terms entered on an internationally popular peer-to-peer website, isoHunt. Over 91 days, 162 persistent search terms were recorded. Most of these related to file sharing of popular movies, music, and so forth. Thirty-six search terms were categorized as spe- cific to a youth market and perhaps a child market. Additionally, 4 deviant, and persistent search terms were found, 3 relating to CEM and the fourth to bestiality. The article discusses whether the existence of CEM on a mainstream website, combined with online subcultural influences, may normalize the material for some youth and increase the risk of onset (first deliberate viewing). Among other things, the article proposes that future research examines the relationship between onset and sex offending by youth.

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Publication title

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volume

64

Issue

5

Pagination

992-1000

ISSN

1532-2882

Department/School

Faculty of Law

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Inc

Place of publication

USA

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Copyright 2013 Wiley

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Crime prevention

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