This e-brief updates the paper Child Pornography Law published in August 2008. Specifically, it reviews the proposals for reform relating to child pornography recommended in Penalties Relating to Sexual Assault Offences in New South Wales, a report by the NSW Sentencing Council, chaired by Supreme Court Judge James Wood. The report is in two volumes...

Tony Krone outlines the legal definition of child pornography and Australian laws relating to this, and presents a typology of online child pornography offending. He also discusses the implications for law enforcement responses.