Child Pornography: A Serious Crime

Child Pornography is a particularly serious crime in the United States. The crime involves exploitation of children sexually by offenders who seek to benefit either directly or indirectly from the vice. This article looks at child pornography in different perspectives and explains its trends in arrests made in the year 2000 and 2006. The article used data from the national juvenile online victimization study, which is a longitudinal survey of a sample of 2500 law enforcement agencies in the US. Trends of child pornography basing on ethnicity are also highlighted with the whites and the Hispanics being the subjects of investigation. The direction of the crimes, arrests, and prosecution of individual in relation to child pornography is discussed. The history of the culprits is also used to describe some aspects of child pornography. The distribution of offenders among different age brackets is also exposed in the article. The fate of those caught and prosecuted with child pornography is evaluated and analyzed in relation to severity and effectiveness of the punishments.

Child pornography crimes are almost stable in the United States of America. Race is influential in because some races are most associated with the vice. In both the years when the studies in this article were carried out, child pornography was found be prevalent in non-Hispanic whites (Wolak, Finkelhor & Mitchell 36). This implies that the white males are the most notorious in child pornography. It is also evident that the vice happens in also most parts of the country and across the divide in terms of social, academic, and economic backgrounds. This is evident from the finding that the offenders were of different educational, geographi...

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... United States is a real problem in real time because it is targeting the most innocent members of the society. There are more efforts directed at fighting the vice by law enforcement agencies, which are at high alert on child pornography. The risk posed by the offenders is exceptionally high given the fact that they have higher chances of succeeding by targeting children. The punishment should be made more severe, and stringent state laws applied. In addition to embracing better methods of fighting child pornography, knowledge about the same crime is crucial. This will boost the efforts of curbing the use of technology in perpetuating child pornography.

Works Cited

Janis, Wolak, David, Finkelhor, and Kimberly, Mitchell. Child Pornography Possessors: Trends in Offender and Case Characteristics." A Journal of Research and Treatment 23.1(2011): 22-42.