Abused childhood. Reticular deviance and digitalization of pedopornography

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO
Author/s Domenico Carzo, Antonia Cava
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2020/3
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 116-135 File size 252 KB
DOI 10.3280/SD2020-003006
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Sexuality experienced through the internet poses a huge challenge in terms of responsibility: mapping the phenomenon, an activity which today is very fragmentary, seems a determining element to develop adequate legal analysis and to study intervention policies aimed at con-trasting degenerations. In this article, after defining pedopornography from a legal point of view, the authors describe the ways in which pedopornographic contents are produced and spread, as well as the metamorphosis of this kind of deviance in a space - the web - that makes the border between producers and users more and more blurred. Lastly, the authors will analyse the upsurge of new criminal activities characterised by new and unedited configura-tions specifically due to digital technologies and criminal policies introduced to adjust regulato-ry instruments to new scenarios of illegality designed by the net.

Keywords: Child Pornography - Deviance - Digital Technologies - Cybercrime

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Domenico Carzo, Antonia Cava, L’infanzia violata. Devianza reticolare e digitalizzazione della pedopornografia in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL DIRITTO " 3/2020, pp 116-135, DOI: 10.3280/SD2020-003006