Internet Child Pornography and the Law: National and International Responses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754622970)

This book provides a critical assessment of the problem of internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, including a comparative assessment of laws in England and Wales, the United States of America and Canada in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The internet raises novel and complex challenges to existing regulatory regimes. Efforts towards legal harmonization at the European Union, Council of Europe, and United Nations level are examined in this context and the utility of additional and alternative methods of regulation explored. This book argues that effective implementation, enforcement and harmonization of laws could substantially help to reduce the availability and dissemination of child pornography on the internet. At the same time, panic-led policies must be avoided if the wider problems of child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation are to be meaningfully addressed.

Author: Yaman Akdeniz
ISBN-10: 0754622975
ISBN-13: 9780754622970
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2008
Pages: 326
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 214