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Viewing child porn not a risk factor for future sex offenses: study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 14, 2009 |
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For people without a prior conviction for a hands-on sex offense, the consumption of child pornography alone does not, in itself, seem to represent a risk factor for committing such an offense. Researchers writing in the ...
UN expert: child porn on Internet increases
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The number of Web sites containing child pornography is increasing and more images show serious abuses, a U.N. expert said Wednesday.
Australia says Web blacklist combats child porn
Mar 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Australia's communications minister has defended a proposed Internet blacklist as necessary to combat child pornography but admitted that at least one site had been wrongly blocked during trials.
Man pleads guilty in Vt. in border child porn case
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Vermont man pleaded guilty Friday to charges he had child pornography on his laptop computer when he entered the United States from Quebec nearly three years ago.
Google eradicates pornography its own way
Jun 28, 2006 |
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Google is showing signs of more resistance in complying with regulators even as rival providers are complying more with the federal government's guidelines.
'Sexting' no worse than spin-the-bottle: study
May 26, 2009 |
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Youths exchanging nude photos of themselves over cellphones, known as "sexting," should not face child pornography charges, as some have in the United States, a humanities conference heard Tuesday.
Filtering truth?
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plans for mandatory internet filtering in Australia may see a wide range of material disappear from computer screens, according to research led by a UNSW academic.
Your computer could open door to cyberpredators
Apr 29, 2009 |
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They're hacking into computers, secretly watching girls on webcams, and using sophisticated techniques to disguise child pornography and thwart law enforcement. Across the globe, men with advanced computer and Internet skills ...
Australian government to introduce Internet filter
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Australia plans to introduce an Internet filtering system to block obscene and crime-linked Web sites despite concerns it will curtail freedoms and won't completely work.
Vt. may set aside harshest penalties for 'sexting'
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Parents, school districts and law enforcement have been grappling with what to do with teenagers who take sexually explicit photos of themselves with their cell phone cameras and send them to friends.
Sex offenders register provides limited protection for children
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 11, 2008 |
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The UK's Sex Offenders Register is failing to protect vulnerable children, according to a psychologist at the University of Liverpool.
Australian Internet 'blacklist' prompts concern
Mar 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A whistle-blower organization claims a secret list of Web sites that Australian authorities are proposing to ban includes such innocuous destinations as a dentist's office.
Japan software firm shrugs off rape game protests
May 08, 2009 |
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A Japanese computer game maker on Friday dismissed a protest by US rights campaigners against the game "RapeLay", which lets players simulate sexual violence against females.
Dot-xxx proposal under consideration
Mar 22, 2006 |
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While legislative pressure has been revived to create a dot-xxx Internet domain in order to better filter pornographic Web sites, some groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, think the idea would ...
A profile of pedophilia: A comprehensive special article offers new insight and help
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 09, 2007 |
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National attention about pedophilia has grown because of recent high-profile cases of child sexual abuse. In this special article in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Ryan Hall, M.D. and Richard Hall, M.D., son ...
