MAP Forum

The research highlighted the potential to implement diverse policy responses to address CSAM offenders that display different behavioural and risk profiles. Key examples included a cyber offender prevention campaign that issued real-time pop-up warning notifications to deter the least-determined offenders from searching for CSAM, referrals to online self-help programmes to meet an unmet demand for help among CSAM offenders, and programmes to help convicted low-risk CSAM offenders to reintegrate back into society and prevent reoffending. Furthermore, a high proportion of images are self-generated by children and young people themselves, and require policies oriented to education and online safety – to illustrate, one study of adolescents in the U.S. found highly permissive attitudes towards the use of generative AI tools (e.g. nudification apps) to create and share sexualised images.