Hidden Worlds: How Child Sexual Abuse Offenders Portray Themselves in Clear-Web Paedophile Community Interactions and Dark-Web Survey Responses.
The protection of children from sexual abuse is of paramount importance to society, and the threat of this abuse has only grown in recent years. Those who pose this threat, child sex offenders, have been found to congregate in online communities where they can trade abusive material and interact wit...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse Vol. 35; no. 5; pp. 614 - 641 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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