| This work is the culmination of many years of study and work. During my undergraduate
and graduate work, my primary research interests revolved around
domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and child exploitation. Feminism,
the Constitution, freedom of expression and privacy, politics, and the
dynamics of power are topics that seem to me to be intertwined with crime
against women and children. As time marches on, I notice that more than
twenty years have passed since I first began to study these issues. The issues have
changed a bit, but they are just as interesting, just as in need of study, and just
as intertwined as ever.
When the Internet was invented, a revolution began in the way we live our
lives. A thousand years from now, the early days of the “Internet Age” will no
doubt be considered of more historic magnitude than the Industrial Revolution
or the Iron Age. In a matter of fifteen years or so, the Internet has irreversibly
impacted every major human endeavor. The Internet has changed the
way we communicate, the way we are educated, our economy, our sexuality, our
politics and the way crime is committed. This book addresses the narrow area
of investigating the online exploitation of children. |
