Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2018

Publication Title

International Journal of Cyber Criminology

Volume

12

Issue Number

1

First Page

255

Last Page

268

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.1467907

Keywords

Child pornography, Self-produced, Juvenile sex offender, Policy, Internet

Disciplines

Criminology | Internet Law | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Abstract

Video recording technology advancements and accessibility has been paralleled by a growth in self-produced child pornography (SPCP). Although social and judicial attention has been given to instances of teenage sexting, Internet-based forms of SPCP, such as webcam/website sex tourism, have almost been ignored. While some of the proposed legislation reform has referenced video-based SPCP, the majority has focused on SPCP distributed through cellular phones; excluding that which is manifested online or through entrepreneurial efforts. The purpose of this article is to introduce non-sexting SPCP, using the case study of Justin Berry (in the United States), and to propose a broad punishment, education, and counseling response from youth criminal justice systems (YCJS). Recommendations are meant as a starting point, framed with multiple YCJS structures, the duality of victim and perpetrator, the justice and welfare approaches to juvenile justice, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in mind.

Comments

This article was published in the International Journal of Cyber Criminology, volume 12, issue 1, 2018, and can also be found at this link. © 2018 International Journal of Cyber Criminology This is a Diamond Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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