Criminal Careers in Cyberspace: Examining Website Failure within Child Exploitation Networks. (9th November 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Criminal Careers in Cyberspace: Examining Website Failure within Child Exploitation Networks. (9th November 2016)
- Main Title:
- Criminal Careers in Cyberspace: Examining Website Failure within Child Exploitation Networks
- Authors:
- G. Westlake, Bryce
Bouchard, Martin - Abstract:
- Abstract : Publically accessible, illegal, websites represent an additional challenge for control agencies, but also an opportunity for researchers to monitor, in real time, changes in criminal careers. Using a repeated measures design, we examine evolution in the networks that form around child exploitation (CE) websites, over a period of 60 weeks, and determine which criminal career dimensions predict website failure. Network data were collected using a custom-designed web-crawler. Baseline survival rates were compared to networks surrounding (legal) sexuality and sports websites. Websites containing CE material were no more likely to fail than comparisons. Cox regression analyses suggest that increased volumes of CE code words and images are associated with premature failure. Websites that are more popular have higher odds of survival. We show that traditional criminal career dimensions can be transferred to the context of online CE and constitute some of the key determinants of an interrupted career.
- Is Part Of:
- Justice quarterly. Volume 33:Number 7(2016)
- Journal:
- Justice quarterly
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 7(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 7 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0033-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 1154
- Page End:
- 1181
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-09
- Subjects:
- criminal careers -- survival analysis -- child pornography -- cybercrime -- web-crawler
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Periodicals
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Periodicals
340.11405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20#.VrB9elLnmic ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07418825.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/07418825.2015.1046393 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0741-8825
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- Legaldeposit
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