The law criminalising the possession of extreme pornography, first enacted in 2008 and amended to include rape pornography in 2015, continues to generate considerable controversy and calls for reform. In order to inform these ongoing discussions, we undertook a study to find out information about who is being charged with extreme pornography offences and their characteristics in terms of gender, age and ethnicity, as well as data on the specific type of pornography forming the subject-matter of those charges. Utilising freedom of information requests, our study provides valuable new information to help inform debates over the policing of extreme pornography across England and Wales. Overall, we found that the vast majority of those charged were white men across all age groups; that bestiality images formed the most common basis for charging and that, in respect of the data provided, the majority of charges were brought together with other sexual offences.

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拥有极端色情：警务、起诉和改革的必要性

将持有极端色情内容定为刑事犯罪的法律于 2008 年首次颁布，并于 2015 年修订为包括强奸色情内容，继续引起相当大的争议并呼吁进行改革。为了为这些正在进行的讨论提供信息，我们进行了一项研究，以了解有关谁被指控犯有极端色情罪行及其性别、年龄和种族特征的信息，以及有关构成该主题的特定色情类型的数据- 这些指控的问题。利用信息请求的自由，我们的研究提供了有价值的新信息，以帮助为英格兰和威尔士关于极端色情内容的监管的辩论提供信息。总体而言，我们发现绝大多数被指控者是各个年龄段的白人男性；