← Back to Patterns

Q02: Exploitation Life Cycle

Core research question

The Question

What does enforcement and offending actually look like at scale, and within definable subsets, what is the structure of the lifecycle from contact through investigation through prosecution?

Most ICAC research works on hashing or aggregate counts. Neither reveals how offenses unfold, how investigators respond, or how cases contrast across offense types. CaseLinker tags the full ICAC/CAC offense landscape in press releases: not only grooming and sextortion, but production, online possession and distribution, hands-on and familial abuse, trafficking networks, and AI-generated CSAM. Q2 stratifies the corpus into eight research subsets below (cases can belong to more than one). Lifecycle phases and offender pathways are synthesized from stated-evidence cases per subset.

The Data

Supporting Cases

Methodology Note

SPARQL / query (if applicable)
# Placeholder: live query will ship with q2_evidence.json wire-up.
← Back to Patterns