Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation and
trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical
locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted
neighbors' homes, camping trips and seedy darkly lit back rooms of
adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use has created a
virtual hunting ground for sexual predators and has fueled a brisk,
multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material.
Approximately half of the caseload in computer crimes units
involves the computer assisted sexual exploitation of children.
Despite the scale of this problem, or perhaps because of it, there
are no published resources that bring together the complex mingling
of disciplines and expertise required to put together a computer
assisted child exploitation case.
This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors and
forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, and
social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in
particular, child pornography. The book will become an
indispensable resource for those involved in the investigation,
prosecution and study of computer-assisted child sexual
exploitation.
The book provides a history of child exploitation cases and
studies, outlining the roles of technology in this type of crime
and the evidence they can contain, and documenting new research
performed by the authors. It details how successful undercover
Internet operations are conducted, how the associated evidence is
collected, and how to use the evidence to locate and apprehend the
offender. The heart of this work is a legal section, detailing all
of the legal issues that arise in Internet child exploitation
cases. A forensic examination section presents evidentiary issues
from a technical perspective and describes how to conduct a
forensic examination of digital evidence gathered in the
investigative and probative stages of a child exploitation
case.
Citations to related documents are provided for readers who want to
learn more about certain issues. Actual case examples from computer
assisted child exploitation cases are explored, at all times
protecting the privacy of the victims while providing enough detail
to educate the reader.
In addition to providing guidance on the technical and legal
aspects of child exploitation investigations, this work identifies
and analyzes trends in this type of crime and helps readers
understand the similarities and differences between child predators
who take to the Internet and predators who do not. Data from the
thirty Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces are
compiled and reported to provide a deeper understanding of the
types of cases, types of offenders and the level of danger they
pose to themselves, their victims, and investigating officers.
Also, sex offender data from the Offices of Attorneys General in
the United States and similar offices in foreign countries are
gathered to increase the study sample size, establish controls, and
expand the scope of the research to outside of the United States.
- The first comprehensive title in this subject area
- It will use real cases and examples of criminal behavior and the
means to detect it.
- Provides guidelines for developing a Field Manual and a Checklist
to supplement the investigation and legal process
- Establishes a reliable system and legal, procedural-backed
protocol by which to conduct an online sexual investigation and
collect evidence
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