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May312018Guest Writer
It’s important not to believe in the stereotype
In the NetClean 2017 report, we asked whether there is such a thing as a typical offender who consumes child sexual abuse material. Hanna Harnesk Hjortsberg, a Registered Psychologist working at the Swedish Prison and Probation Service, commented on the findings.
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Apr252018Guest Writer
Ulrika Rogland: “Ensuring that the police receive the right resources is the biggest challenge”
Ulrika Rogland: “It is the Police that are struggling to find sufficient resources and build an organisational structure that suits the crime.”
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Apr162018Guest Writer
Improving current responses: the need for evidence-based decisions
Researcher and lecturer Maggie Brennan, about how academia can contribute to efforts to fight online child sexual abuse.
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Apr112018Guest Writer
Mats Odell, Financial Coalition: “Technical developments give hope”
Trafficking, which includes child sexual abuse material, is the world’s third largest and most profitable organised crime. Financial coalitions across the world have however managed to ensure that the ability to pay for this crime through legitimate transaction channels has in the main ceased.
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Apr042018Guest Writer
Maggie Brennan: “We need better research for better intervention”
Maggie Brennan: Academic research is central to better, evidence-led decision making in the fight against online child sexual exploitation.
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Mar282018Guest Writer
Mats Granryd, GSMA: “Blocking child sexual abuse content is common sense”
Mats Granryd, GSMA: All organisations and businesses within the telecoms industry are aware of the problem of child sexual abuse content, and the industry is addressing it in many different ways.
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Mar202018Guest Writer
Susie Hargreaves, IWF: “Embracing partnerships is essential”
Susie Hargreaves, Internet Watch Foundation: There is a widespread perception that the business world doesn’t do enough to fight the dissemination of child sexual abuse material, so we spend a lot of time highlighting the good work that they do.
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Mar072018Guest Writer
Steven Wilson, Europol: “There has been significant improvement”
Steven Wilson, Head of European Cybercrime Centre, Europol: The problem of child sexual exploitation needs to be tackled on a global level. If we try to tackle it on a national level we will only have partial success. As a pan-European organisation, Europol has a position that enables a larger overview than a more limited national perspective.
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Mar062018Anna Borgström
Collaboration – hearing from invested sectors and businesses
In The NetClean Report 2017, Part 2 of the report, we highlight what I believe is one of the main components of tackling online child sexual abuse crime – collaboration.
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Jan312018Guest Writer
More than 3,100 children rescued
We are very proud of the fact that Ernie Allen agreed to write the keynote to the 2017 report. Allen is an adviser to governments, law enforcement and technology companies. He was appointed by the then Prime Minister David Cameron to chair the Global Initiative WePROTECT, which has the task of combating online child abuse and exploitation.
