ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book offers crucial definitions and critically presents two groups of reasons as to why victims of cybercrime are marginalised by the criminal law. It concerns issues relating to sexual violence, abuse, and exploitation, as well as to sexual expression online. The book looks at the problem of gendered cyberhate such as rape threats and revenge porn. It explores the growing issue of 'sexting' media practices within a gendered social, cultural, historical, and technological context. The book also looks at the current research on internet-facilitated commercial sexual exploitation, and explains how cyberspace provides a new terrain for traffickers to recruit, blackmail, exchange, and advertise victims to potential sex buyers who are also complicit in the victimisation of both children and adults. It also explores how new technologies play a crucial part in creating new opportunities to exploit people and facilitating exploitation.
