Sexual Assault Trials Handbook — Online exploitation

B Leclerc, et al, “Child sexual abuse material on the darknet: a script analysis of how offenders operate”, in Australian Institute of Criminology, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, No 627, 2021.

This paper examines the emergence of child sexual abuse material over the internet and darknet. It reports the findings of a study using data obtained from interviews with online investigators and crime script analysis to reconstruct step-by-step how sex offenders operate on the darknet. The paper covers production and distribution of child sexual abuse material online, crime script analysis, and what can be done to boost law enforcement capacity to detect, investigate and prevent child sexual abuse material on the darknet.