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“It’s just one of those things that happens now”: A participatory approach to the development and delivery of a self-generated child sexual abuse material prevention campaign
Thu, September 12, 8:00 to 9:15am, Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest, Floor: 1st floor, Room 2.22Abstract
Recent reports have noted a marked increase in the amount of self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM) available on the internet (IWF, 2023). This is in addition to the ever-decreasing age of children ‘producing’ this imagery being detected, with the fastest increase being amongst primary-aged children, aged 7-10 years (IWF, 2023). These images can be initially taken and shared by children and young people consensually amongst peers but are in many cases SG-CSAM which is produced as a result of online grooming or blackmail (sextortion) (INHOPE, 2022). This material can then subsequently be traded and sold by child sexual offenders online, via the dark and surface web.
This paper will report on the findings from a collaborative project between the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), funded by the Oak Foundation. The aim of the research was to examine SG-CSAM through the lens of three different groups —children/young people, parents/educators, and perpetrators – and use these findings to inform the development of a targeted prevention campaign to reduce the number of ‘self-generated’ child sexual abuse images and videos on the internet.
The presentation will describe the pre-campaign research phase which included participatory research with 307 children, 13 parents and carers and 38 teachers / educators across 34 focus groups, as well as an analysis of dark web perpetrator SG-CSAM forum posts and discussions. The final campaign resources will also be showcased.