ABSTRACT
The challenge for UK police forces was to arrest and prosecute their enormous list of over seven thousand potential paedophiles covertly accessing this illegal material, with limited experience in the field, and no extra policing resources at their disposal. This chapter discusses the neurological processes that occur in the brain when viewing pornography on the Internet and the addiction that may lead individuals to commit such offences. Browsing pornography on the Internet provides information in graphic detail, with sexual excitement as the emotional tag. The visual and emotional demands for a computer intelligence officer dealing with just one case alone could be harrowing, given the length and breadth of imagery available online. When closeness does occur with a loved one, at times of heightened sexual arousal intrusive images might occur from the hippocampal trauma storage system in the mid-brain, and might contribute to a breakdown in usual sexual relations.
