Crime scenes associated with child sexual exploitation and trafficking in child pornography were once limited to physical locations such as school playgrounds, church vestibules, trusted neighbors' homes, camping trips and seedy darkly lit back rooms of adult bookstores. The explosion of Internet use has created a virtual hunting ground for sexual predators and has fueled a brisk, multi-billion dollar trade in the associated illicit material. Approximately half of the caseload in computer crimes units involves the computer assisted sexual exploitation of children. Despite the scale of this problem, or perhaps because of it, there are no published resources that bring together the complex mingling of disciplines and expertise required to put together a computer assisted child exploitation case. This work fills this void, providing police, prosecutors and forensic examiners with the historical, legal, technical, and social background for the laws prohibiting child exploitation, in particular, child pornography. The book will become an indispensable resource for those involved in the investigation, prosecution and study of computer-assisted child sexual exploitation.

This book was effectively written over a period of many years. I began research into the life and teaching of Jesus, his Jewish environment, and fruitful methodology, by eading for a doctorate on aspects of the ‘Son of man’ problem at Durham University under Professor C. K. Barrett, whose extraordinary combination of learning and helpfulness with lack of bureaucracy or interference remains a model to which one can only aspire. My work on methodology, especially on the use of Aramaic to unravel and interpret accurate Gospel sources, and distinguish them from secondary material, was greatly facilitated by the award of a British Academy Research Readership 1994–96, when I worked on Aramaic sources of Mark’s Gospel and of the ‘Q’ material, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2001–4, when I worked on the ‘Son of man’ problem. I am also grateful to scholars who discussed with me over the years the many and diffi cult problems of method and detail which work on a life of Jesus has involved. I would particularly like to thank Dr R. D. Aus, the late Professor M. Black, Professor R. Bauckham, Professor G. J. Brooke, Professor B. D. Chilton, Professor J. A. Fitzmyer, Professor R. Kearns, the late Professor B. Lindars, Professor M. Müller, and Professor M. Wilcox. I would also like to thank members of the Aramaic Background and Historical Jesus seminars at SNTS, the Jesus seminar at meetings of British New Testament scholars, and an annual seminar ‘The Use of the Old Testament in the New’ now generally held at St Deiniol’s Library, for what I have learnt from them.