Abstract
Few offences carry a stigma as great as that of 'child pornography', and rightly so. The range of images in circulation is truly shocking, from graphic images of naked children, to actual sexual acts between adults and children, to bestiality and sadism. Those who produce, distribute and possess such images deserve condemnation. Yet it is only in recent decades that child pornography has been prosecuted independently of obscenity laws, and even more recently that sentences have been increased to reflect the gravity of this offending. This increasing criminalisation has been given greater urgency by the advent of digital technology which allows offenders to produce and distribute such material with relative ease and anonymity. This has seen an extraordinary rise in the number of images in circulation and a corresponding rise in prosecutions.
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