ABSTRACT
Contemporary understandings of pornography and use of the criminal justice system to regulate pornography relate to historical perspectives and policies. This was discussed in Chapter 3. Future understandings are likely to be relevant to historical and traditional understandings. Yet, technological advancements may challenge the criminal justice system in new ways. Sexting, online viewing of child pornography, and emerging thought-control technologies may require new analyses and responses from the criminal justice system. Traditional attitudes may continue to inform new policies and limit new technologies, but traditional attitudes may be reformed by new understandings. The criminal justice system may revise approaches to classifying offenders and offenses.
