Who Is Bob_34? sheds light on the clandestine world of online child pornography and pedophilia. What exactly do we know about these crimes? Who produces child cyberpornography? Who distributes it? Who consumes it? And how do they meet? Can we use profiling to identify pedophiles online? By surveying the scholarship on the topic and obtaining original empirical data through their infiltration of child-porn user groups, Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau address these questions and more, opening a window on a contemporary phenomenon that is much more complex than media accounts and...

Who Is Bob_34? sheds light on the clandestine world of online child pornography and pedophilia. What exactly do we know about these crimes? Who produces child cyberpornography? Who distributes it? Who consumes it? And how do they meet? Can we use profiling to identify pedophiles online? By surveying the scholarship on the topic and obtaining original empirical data through their infiltration of child-porn user groups, Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau address these questions and more, opening a window on a contemporary phenomenon that is much more complex than media accounts and...