ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on legal and policy initiatives to address the problem, availability and distribution of child pornography through the Internet in recognition that governments have a compelling interest to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. Governments are anxious to further tighten child pornography laws, and the UK is currently considering whether to criminalize the possession of non-photographic graphic and explicit visual depictions of child sexual abuse in respect of cartoons, drawings, computer-generated images and other non-photographic representations. International recognition of the problem of child pornography needs to translate into local action by individual states if it is to produce results. Unfortunately, in many countries the problem of paedophilia, sexual exploitation of children, and child pornography is not high on the political agenda.
