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Tertiary education students' attitudes to the harmfulness of viewing and distributing child pornography

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posted on 2023-05-18, 15:55 authored by Jeremy PrichardJeremy Prichard, Caroline SpiranovicCaroline Spiranovic, Gelb, K, Watters, PA, Krone, T
Little research has examined public support for criminalising viewing and distributing child exploitation material (CEM). Using an online survey of 431 undergraduate students from Australia, we explored perceptions of the harmfulness of CEM. The majority of respondents agreed that viewing and distributing CEM lead to further production and had a negative effect on victims. Although 93% of respondents agreed that CEM involving real child victims should be illegal, 22% did not agree that CEM involving pseudoimages should be illegal. Those who demonstrated higher levels of agreement with explanations of the harmfulness of CEM were more likely to be female, to have achieved postsecondary qualifications, to have never viewed pornography, to support censorship of pornography, and to believe that CEM involving pseudoimages of children should be illegal. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Publication title

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Volume

23

Pagination

224-239

ISSN

1321-8719

Department/School

Faculty of Law

Publisher

Routledge

Place of publication

United Kingdom

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Copyright 2015 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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Socio-economic Objectives

Crime prevention

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