Prichard, Jeremy;
Scanlan, Joel;
Krone, Tony;
Spiranovic, Caroline;
Watters, Paul;
Wortley, Richard;
(2022)
Warning messages to prevent illegal sharing of sexual images: Results of a randomised controlled experiment.
Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
, 647
10.52922/ti78559.
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Abstract
Illegal distribution of sexual images by adults and minors is an expanding problem. We examined whether messages would dissuade men (18–32 years) from visiting a fake website offering access to free pornography to users who uploaded a sexual image of a woman. Participants seeking to enter the site (n=528) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions. Group 1 went straight to the landing page. Group 2 encountered a text warning that sharing sexual images of people who appear under 18 years old is illegal; Group 3 received the same message with an accompanying animation. Sixty percent of Group 1 participants attempted to access the site, compared with 43 percent in Group 2 and 38 percent in Group 3. We argue that online messages offer a valuable strategy that can help reduce image-based abuse and the distribution of child sexual abuse material, including by minors.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Warning messages to prevent illegal sharing of sexual images: Results of a randomised controlled experiment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.52922/ti78559 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.52922/ti78559 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Material obtained from the website of the Australian Institute of Criminology (https://www.aic.gov.au/) is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10144666 |
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