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Sex, Kids, and Crime in Cyberspace: Some Reflections on Crossing Boundaries

CAUGHT IN THE CYBER CRIME ACT, A.R. Lodder, A. Oskamp, eds., Kluwer, 2009
2009
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  • Usage
    5,511
    • Abstract Views
      4,951
    • Downloads
      560
  • Captures
    1
    • Readers
      1
      • SSRN
        1
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      98,885

Paper Description

This contribution sketches some contours of the landscape of sex, minors, and crime in cyberspace, illustrated by a varied casuistry of case-law emerging in the Netherlands. It discusses exposure to indecency, self-representation, viewing child porn online, grooming, and webcam sex abuse. It also highlights four types of boundaries - of nations, age, consent, and decency - in this landscape, that pose challenges to regulators, because in cyberspace, borders have a tendency to shift and blur. This implies that a debate is needed on the regulatory tilt of cybersex policy, which needs to take into account the co-evolution of technology, society, and regulation, and the need for empirical research and theoretical reflection.

Bibliographic Details

Bert-Jaap Koops

minors; sex crimes; webcam; Internet; cybersex; criminalisation

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