How do social media and technology facilitate child criminal exploitation, and what are the implications for prevention and intervention?
Background
The Scottish Government’s Vision for Justice aims to address the underlying causes of crime and create a society in which people feel, and are, safer in their communities. As such, Justice Analytical Services have identified the theme ‘Crime, Prevention & Specific Crime Types’ as a research priority. Robust research on crime and its various dimensions as well as prevention strategies will inform work towards these aims.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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ISIS: Protecting children in online social networks
The aim of the Isis project is to develop an ethics-centred monitoring framework and tools for supporting law enforcement agencies in policing online social networks for the purpose of protecting children. The project wi...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically focuses on protecting children in online social networks and developing monitoring tools for law enforcement agencies to prevent child exploitation.
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ISIS: Protecting children in online social networks
The aim of the Isis project is to develop an ethics-centred monitoring framework and tools for supporting law enforcement agencies in policing online social networks for the purpose of protecting children. The project wi...
Funded by: EPSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to develop monitoring tools for law enforcement agencies to protect children in online social networks and address the challenges of identifying active paedophiles and distributors of child abuse media.
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CybercrimeNLP (CC-NLP): A natural language processing toolkit for the interdisciplinary analysis of underground online forums
Online and electronic crime now account for about half of all property crime, in all countries for which we have good victimisation data. A significant number of other offences, including harassment, also happen online. ...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on analyzing online crime forums to understand how young people get drawn into crime, which directly relates to child criminal exploitation and prevention strategies.