The Government will introduce new measures to deal with extreme pornography this spring. It is currently illegal to produce or to distribute images of extreme sexual violence – but it is not against the law to possess them. The new Criminal Justice Bill will settle this anomaly and criminalise the possession of these images.
How easy is it to define what constitutes extreme pornography? What do we actually know about the connections between looking at images of sexual violence and committing violent sexual offences? And, how easy will it be to police the downloading of images that are frequently accessed via the internet on sites owned abroad?
Jenni talks to Clare McGlynn, Professor of Law at the University of Durham and Jim Gamble, Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre about the proposed changes to the law.
