Lock Them Up Longer, Sell Their Stuff: How to Curb Child Pornography

Vachss argues that the way to fight this crime is by making it more expensive to commit. “Civil forfeiture gained prominence during the so–called ‘war on drugs,’ and gained strength with the evolution of RICO statutes,” Vachss said in an interview with the National Association to Protect Children, which he serves as a board member. “Now civil forfeiture is possible for a whole variety of crimes (including child pornography, under Title 18 United States Code 2254) but the laws involving forfeiture for drug trafficking or money laundering tend to be much stronger than those for other crimes. For example, there are expansive multi–national civil forfeiture laws when narco–trafficking is involved.”