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that they use the Internet to gain access to children whom they coerce into meeting themfor sexual purposes. The third category, trader-travellers, are those who do both. However,as Beech, Elliot, Birgden and Findlater (2008) have indicated, “Although intuitivelysimple and appealing, there are also a number of problems with this system. A trader whotravels to commit contact offences with children solicited offline while simultaneouslyaccessing abusive images would only be considered a trader. Conversely, an offender whouses the Internet to arrange sexual meetings with children and simultaneously collectsoffline ‘indicative’ images or sexually abusive pseudo-images of children is only considereda traveller”. For the discussion on the offending behaviour that would fit into the categoryof sexual exploitation we can clearly see the trader as contributing to and furthering thesexual abuse of children by committing crimes that would fall in the exploitation category,whereas the traveller and the trader-traveller would both be sexual abusers and sexualexploiters as their offences build on the one to further the other. Krone (2004) generated amore comprehensive typology along a continuum of increasing seriousness of the offence.This included offences that did not directly involve a child to offences involving directcontact with children, and from online engagement to physical abuse. Krone’s (2004)typology generated nine types of offender classes. These were:Table 2: Krone’s (2004) typologyBrowser: This is a person who may stumble across child pornography unintentionally(for example via spam) but then decide to keep it, rather than delete it.Private fantasy: Krone differentiates between a private fantasy (which is unlikely to beseen as illegal) and where there is evidence of that fantasy through a permanent product,such as images or text. This is not necessarily shared with others, but may come to lightaccidentally.Trawler: This is a person who uses little online security and where there is minimalnetworking with others. Krone (2004) used the earlier work of Taylor (1999) to explainwhat might motivate such a person. The sexually omnivorous user is oriented to a rangeof sexually explicit material of which child pornography is simply a part but not thefocus. The sexually curious user has experimented with child pornographic material buthas not pursued it. The libertarian is driven to assert a claim to be free to access whateverIn material a similar they way, wish. Lanning (2001) talked about ‘computer offenders’ who use this medium24|Child Pornography and Sexual Exploitation of Children Online