L'infanzia violata. Devianza reticolare e digitalizzazione della pedopornografia

Abstract

Sexuality experienced through the internet poses a huge challenge in terms of responsibility: mapping the phenomenon, an activity which today is very fragmentary, seems a determining element to develop adequate legal analysis and to study intervention policies aimed at con-trasting degenerations. In this article, after defining pedopornography from a legal point of view, the authors describe the ways in which pedopornographic contents are produced and spread, as well as the metamorphosis of this kind of deviance in a space - the web - that makes the border between producers and users more and more blurred. Lastly, the authors will analyse the upsurge of new criminal activities characterised by new and unedited configura-tions specifically due to digital technologies and criminal policies introduced to adjust regulato-ry instruments to new scenarios of illegality designed by the net.