Reconstructing the sexual abuse of children: ‘cyber-paeds’, panic and power
Reconstructing the sexual abuse of children: ‘cyber-paeds’, panic and power
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重建对儿童的性虐待：“网络儿童”、恐慌和权力
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2012
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M. Wykes
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Y. Jewkes;M. Wykes
近年来，出现了一些文化犯罪话语的转变，这些转变使政治和公众的关注点远离了“现实世界”针对儿童和最有可能实施此类犯罪的人的性犯罪。其中包括将危险的陌生人视为儿童的主要威胁；在常用词汇中广泛使用“恋童癖”和“儿童色情制品”这两个术语，并将恋童癖和色情制品放置在虚拟空间而不是真实空间中。这种言论不仅不能保护儿童，甚至可能会迷恋青少年和年轻的身体，与广泛的儿童商业性化相勾结。在“网络付费”中，新闻媒体创造了我们这个时代的怪物，并精心策划了一些犯罪学家可能称之为“网络”和“付费”的道德恐慌。这种情况发生在这样一种文化中：在对“网络用户”进行严厉谴责和愤怒的同时，还经常性地将儿童物化，并将妇女幼稚化，以推销产品或将快乐作为产品；这种文化在很大程度上也忽视了大多数针对儿童的性犯罪发生在家庭中的证据。本文探讨了当代性和童年建构中固有的矛盾和偏转，并评估了网络空间中恋童癖者的恐慌。
In recent years there have been several culturo-criminal discursive shifts, which have oriented political and public concerns away from ‘real world’ sex crimes against children and the people most likely to commit them. These include the construction of the dangerous stranger as the primary threat to children; the widespread use of the terms ‘paedophile’ and ‘child pornography’ in the common lexicon and the placing of both the paedophile and pornography in virtual rather than real space. Such discourses not only fail to protect children, but may even work to fetishize youth and youthful bodies colluding with the widespread commercial sexualization of children. In the ‘cyber-paed’ the news media have created the monster of our age and orchestrated what some criminologists might term a moral panic about both ‘cyber’ and ‘paeds’. This has occurred in a culture that, simultaneous with the castigation and outrage of the ‘cyber-paed’, routinely sexually objectifies children and infantilizes women to sell products, or pleasure as product; a culture that also largely ignores the evidence that most sexual crime against children happens in families. This article explores the contradictions and deflections inherent in contemporary constructions of sexuality and childhood and assesses the panic about paedophiles in cyber-space.