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The investigation of cybercrime and the gathering of appropriate evidence for a criminal prosecution, the science of “forensic computing”, “digital forensics”, or “cyber forensics”, can be an extremely difficult and complex issue (Walden 2007, p. 205).
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Notes
- 1.
Researchers found that exposure to images of inappropriate sexual conduct with minors, not to mention actual sexual abuse of children, is damaging to the young child’s development. See Preston (2009), All Knowledge is not Equal: Facilitating Children’s Access to Knowledge by Making the Internet Safer, International Journal of Communications Law & Policy, issue 13, p. 118.
- 2.
See Schrock and Boyd, Online Threats to Youth: Solicitation, Harassment, and Problematic Content, Literature Review by the Research Advisory Board of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, available at: <www.zephoria.org>, [visited 01/08/2011].
- 3.
Ibid.
- 4.
Ibid.
- 5.
Available at <www.idletechie.com>, [retrieved 01 / 08/ 2011].
- 6.
Ibid.
- 7.
See Parkinson, Family Law and Parent—Child Contact : Assessing the Risk of Sexual Abuse , MULR 15, available at: <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MULR/1999/15.html>, (retrieved 02 August 2011).
- 8.
Available at <www.idletechie.com>, [retrieved 02 August 2011].
- 9.
Ibid.
- 10.
Ibid.
- 11.
Ibid.
- 12.
See < http://secondlife.com>.
- 13.
An avatar is a computer user’s representation of himself/herself or alter ego, whether in the form of a three—dimensional model used in computer games, a two—dimensional icon used on internet forums and other communities. It is an “object” representing the embodiment of the user. The term can also refer to personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an internet user. See <www.wikipedia.org >.
- 14.
Founder of Second Life.
- 15.
Premium membership allows the resident to own land, with the first 512 m² (of Main Land owned by a holder of a Premium account) free of the usual monthly Land Use Fee. The users pay US $ for their first 65,536 m2. Any land must be purchased from either Liden Lab or a private seller.
- 16.
Linden Lab has implemented a new account verification system. Users that want to access adult regions and search results will have to authenticate their accounts by having payment information on file or by using Linden Lab’s age verification system. Available at <www.pcworld.com>, (retrieved 02 August 2011).
- 17.
See Schrock and Boyd, Online Threats to Youth: Solicitation, Harassment, and Problematic Content, op. cit.
- 18.
Ibid.
- 19.
Ibid.
- 20.
Ibid.
- 21.
Ibid.
- 22.
Ibid.
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Chawki, M., Darwish, A., Khan, M.A., Tyagi, S. (2015). Online Obscenity and Child Sexual Abuse. In: Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15150-2_6
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