Priorities in Sex Crimes
Priorities in Sex Crimes
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Priorities in Sex Crimes
If I were tasked with investigating various Internet-facilitated sex offenses, I would have several priorities. The first would be the collection of evidence to prevent contamination, destruction or loss, which would impede the prosecution of offenders. The second priority would be the identification of the sexual exploitation of minors by discovering Internet instruments and networks exploited by online predators in perpetrating sex offenses, especially against children. Another priority would entail identifying contact offenses relating to online sex crimes against minors, including production, possession, online distribution, trading, trafficking, and selling of child pornography and domestic and overseas child sex tourism (traveling to engage in sex offenses against minors). Child abductions characterized by the enigmatic disappearance of minors would be my fourth priority. My fifth priority would involve determining incidents of coordinated international parental kidnapping and wrongful retention of minors with the intent of trafficking them using Internet means while obstructing the legal exercise of parental rights.
I would focus my enforcement efforts in three areas. The first is manufacturing, distributing, and trading child pornography via the Internet. I would focus on this area because it is the biggest contributor to child internet sex offending outlawed by Federal law (United States Department of Justice, 2017). The second area is that of child abductions and sex trafficking. I would focus my enforcement efforts here because online cartels that deal with abducting and trafficking children for sex are continually growing (Walters & Davis, 2011). The last area is child sex tourism. I would focus my enforcement efforts in this area because it is relatively new in sex offending legislation, meaning that laws in this area are somewhat inadequate (Bah, 2020).
References
United States Department of Justice. (July 25, 2017). Child pornography. Washington, DC. United States Department of Justice. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/child-pornography.
Walters, J., & Davis, P. H. (2011). Human trafficking, sex tourism, and child exploitation on the southern border. Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2(1), 6.
Bah, Y. M. (2020). Causes of child sex tourism systematic literature review. EC Clinical and Experimental Anatomy. Surabaya, Indonesia. University of Airlangga.
