Misplaced Pages

Child pornography: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 17:10, 24 August 2007 view sourceDyskolos (talk | contribs)153 edits Child pornography as child abuse: +study← Previous edit Revision as of 18:20, 26 August 2007 view source KevinJames9872 (talk | contribs)31 editsNo edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
<div class="boilerplate metadata" id="afd" style="margin: 0 5%; padding: 0 7px 7px 7px; background: #EDF1F1; border: 1px solid #999999; text-align: left; font-size:95%;">
'''This article is currently under discussion at ]''', because a recent decision to retain it on Misplaced Pages has been appealed. You may wish to contribute to ]. While the review is in progress, you are welcome to edit the article, but please do not blank it or remove this notice. For more information, particularly on merging or moving articles under review, please see ]. <!-- Template:Delrev --> <br/>
</div>
]

'''Child pornography''' refers to ] material depicting ]. The production of child pornography is widely regarded as a form of ]<ref> BBC News | 29 May 2001 (Retrieved 29 May 2007)</ref> and as such these images and ]s are illegal in most countries. Some outlaw only production, while others also prohibit distributing, possessing, and accessing child pornography<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1221549.stm</ref>. Prohibition generally covers visual representations of ] by children under a given age but may also include all images of ], unless an ]istic or medical justification can be provided. '''Child pornography''' refers to ] material depicting ]. The production of child pornography is widely regarded as a form of ]<ref> BBC News | 29 May 2001 (Retrieved 29 May 2007)</ref> and as such these images and ]s are illegal in most countries. Some outlaw only production, while others also prohibit distributing, possessing, and accessing child pornography<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1221549.stm</ref>. Prohibition generally covers visual representations of ] by children under a given age but may also include all images of ], unless an ]istic or medical justification can be provided.



Revision as of 18:20, 26 August 2007

This article is currently under discussion at Misplaced Pages:Deletion review, because a recent decision to retain it on Misplaced Pages has been appealed. You may wish to contribute to the review. While the review is in progress, you are welcome to edit the article, but please do not blank it or remove this notice. For more information, particularly on merging or moving articles under review, please see Misplaced Pages:Guide to deletion.

Child pornography refers to pornographic material depicting children. The production of child pornography is widely regarded as a form of child sexual abuse and as such these images and videos are illegal in most countries. Some outlaw only production, while others also prohibit distributing, possessing, and accessing child pornography. Prohibition generally covers visual representations of sexual behaviour by children under a given age but may also include all images of nude children, unless an artistic or medical justification can be provided.

Child pornography as child abuse

Where child pornography involves depictions of children engaging in sexual conduct, the production of this material will in itself be legally prohibited as sexual abuse in most countries. The profit that can be made from selling such images is seen as a factor in encouraging the original abuse that is photographed or filmed.

The children's charity NCH has claimed that demand for child pornography on the internet has led to an increase in sex abuse cases. Substantiated cases of child sexual abuse have declined dramatically in number since 1992.

See also

References

  1. Anger at child porn sentence BBC News | 29 May 2001 (Retrieved 29 May 2007)
  2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1221549.stm
  3. Fetishising images spiked-liberties | 23 January 2003 (Retrieved 29 May 2007)
  4. "Internet porn 'increasing child abuse'". Guardian Unlimited (in English). Guardian News and Media Limited. 2004-01-12. Retrieved 2007-06-01. Demand for child pornography on the internet has led to an increase in sex abuse cases,{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. Jones, L., and Finkelhor, D. (2001). The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. Bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

External links

Stub icon

This crime-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: