Ms., Staffine

Ms., Staffine

REDUCING CYBER CRIME

ASHANNI STAFFINE

STRAYER UNIVERSITY

CIS 170

POLICE TECHNOLOGY

PRODESSOR WEAKLEY

06/08/2011

REDUCING CYBER CRIME

Cyber Crime is a term used broadly to describe activity in which computers or network are a tool, a target or a place of criminal activity. These categories are not exclusive and many activities can be falling in one or more categories.
Child pornography is a serious concern for parents and law authorities and the Internet is unfortunately used by pedophiles to traffic. The treatment of children as sexual objects has existed through the ages, and so too has the production of erotic literature and drawings involving children. However, pornography in the modern sense began with the invention of the camera in the early nineteenth century. Almost immediately, sexualized images involving children were produced, traded, and collected.
Even so, child pornography remained a restricted activity through most of the twentieth century. Images were usually locally produced, of poor quality, expensive, and difficult to obtain. The relaxation of censorship standards in the 1960s led to an increase in the availability of child pornography, and, by 1977, some 250 child pornography magazines were circulating in the United States, many imported from Europe. Despite concern about the extent of child pornography, law enforcement agencies had considerable success in stemming the trafficking of these traditional hard-copy forms. However, the advent of the Internet in the 1980s dramatically changed the scale and nature of the child pornography problem, and has required new approaches to investigation and control.
Internet child pornography is unlike most crimes local police departments handle. Local citizens may access child pornography images that were produced and/or stored in another city or on another continent. Alternatively, they may produce or distribute images that are downloaded by people thousands of miles away....

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