Risk Factors

Environmental, socio-economic, cultural and personal traits that may make a child more likely to experience sexual abuse and exploitation.

Computer Generated Imagery

In the context of child sexual abuse and exploitation, this refers to wholly or partly artificially or digitally created Sexualised images of children (Source: OHCHR…

Deep-fake

A form of CGI that uses AI to replace one person’s likeness with another in recorded video. (Source: Business Insider)

Capping

Offenders capturing footage of livestreamed child sexual abuse and exploitation (Source: Europol COVID Report). Capping may also include offenders capturing innocuous imagery of children and…

Sexualised images of children

Images that do not represent the sexual abuse of a child, but which are used for sexual purposes. Sexualisation is not always an objective criterion,…

Escalation Pathway

The stages an individual moves through leading up to the perpetration of child sexual abuse. Pathways can vary and are not always linear. Some individuals…

Child displaying harmful sexual behavior

A child or young person under the age of 18 years old exhibiting behaviours that are developmentally inappropriate, may be harmful towards themselves or others…