This book uses a crime science approach to explore the ways in which child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can be tackled. It describes the CSAM ecosystem, focusing on the ways in which it is produced, distributed and consumed and explores different interventions that can be used to tackle each issue.
Eliminating Online Child Sexual Abuse Material provides a methodical approach to unpacking and understanding this growing problem, identifies approaches that have been shown to work and offers alternatives that might be tried. This analysis is set within a crime sciences context that draws on rational choice, routine activities, situation crime prevention and environmental criminology to better understand the nature of the problem and the potential ways in which it may be solved.
This book is intended for policy-makers and practitioners working in child protection, online harms and related areas and for students studying sexual violence or internet-related crime. The book will also be of interest to crime scientists as it provides another example of how the approach can be used to understand and reduce crime.
1 Introduction
PART 1: The ecosystem
2 The CSAM ecosystem
3 How is CSAM produced?
4 How is CSAM distributed?
5 How is CSAM consumed?
6 Understanding CSAM problems
PART 2: Addressing the problem
7 Taking a crime science approach
8 Approaches to reducing the production of CSAM
9 Approaches to preventing the distribution of CSAM
10 Approaches to preventing the consumption of CSAM
11 Conclusions
Biography
Rick Brown is the Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology and lives in Canberra, Australia. He has been a criminologist for over 30 years and has worked extensively on issues associated with crime prevention, community safety and policing in Australia, the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Rick has published over 70 government reports, book chapters and journal articles on a wide range of crime issues and most recently has focused on online child sexual abuse. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Westminster and a Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) degree from Hatfield Polytechnic in the UK. Rick is also a Visiting Fellow of Policing and Criminal Justice at the University of Derby and on the editorial boards of numerous journals.
