Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Location

Canadian Policing Research

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Les images d'abus pédosexuels : analyse des sites internet par Cyberaide.ca.

Authors

• Bunzeluk, Kelly.
• Canadian Centre for Child Protection.
• Cybertip.ca.

Publishers

• Winnipeg, Man. :  Canadian Centre for Child Protection, 2009.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Description

1 online resource (49 p.)

Note

Issued also in French under title: Les images d'abus pédosexuels : analyse des sites internet par Cyberaide.ca.
"November 2009."
"This research report was written by Kelly Bunzeluk, in collaboration with other staff at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection."
Description based on print version record.

Summary

This report summarizes the findings of Cybertip.ca's examination of nearly 16,000 incidents involving sites hosting child pornography and the analysis of more than 4,000 unique images of child sexual abuse. More than 82% of the images assessed by Cybertip.ca depicted very young, pre-pubescent children under 12 years of age. Most concerning was the severity of abuse depicted, with more than 35% of all images showing serious sexual assaults. The report provides a series of 12 recommendations and a number of educational priorities.

Subject

• Child pornography - Canada.
• Child sexual abuse - Canada.
• Internet pornography - Canada.
• Online sexual predators - Canada.
• Internet and children - Canada.

Contents

Part I -- 1. Purpose -- 2. Executive summary -- 3. Child sexual abuse images -- 3.1. Scope of the problem -- 3.2. Online child pornography and sexual offences against children -- 4. Methodology and definitions -- 4.1. Methodology and research questions -- 4.2. Limitations -- 4.3 Image classification—age range and severity of the abuse -- 5. Websites hosting child sexual abuse images -- 5.1. Website types -- 5.2. Image selection and analysis -- 5.3. Child sexual abuse images described by Cybertip.ca -- 5.4. Page analysis -- 5.5. The marketing of children -- 6. The “business” of child sexual abuse -- 6.1. What does a commercial website hosting child sexual abuse images look like? -- 6.2. What kind of images are on commercial child sexual abuse websites? -- 6.3. Where are commercial websites hosted? -- 6.4. How are the images purchased? -- 6.5. What is for sale? -- 7. Conclusion and recommendations -- 7.1. Conclusion -- 7.2. Recommendations --
Part II -- 8. CYBERTIP.CA -- 8.1. Cybertip.ca history -- 8.2. Analyst training -- 8.3. How Cybertip.ca works -- 8.4. Cybertip.ca reports -- 8.5. Report triaging and analysis -- 8.6. Classifying reports -- 8.7. Addressing illegal activity.