Borders Conference - Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border / Child Pornography on the Internet Session
Appendix III: Presentation Materials – Max Taylor (continued)
Slide 99
Clinical as opposed to conceptual typologies
“The classification, diagnosis and assessment of child molesters are complicated by a high degree of variability among individuals in terms of persona characteristics, criminal histories and reasons for offending. There is no single profile that accurately describes or accounts for all child molester.”
Prentky et al. 1997
Slide 100
Clinical as opposed to conceptual typologies
- It appears the same will apply to Internet offenders
- Need to look at how the Internet functions for the individual within a social context
- It appears to be a dynamic rather than static process
Slide 101
'Good' and 'Bad' offenders
- a simple but important point - once a picture is in the public domain, it remains in circulation regardless of the fate of the producer
- Salt and Louise pictures
- Lucy
- downloading and accessing photographs in itself is a source of continuing victimisation
Slide 102
Thoughts/concerns 1 (in no logical or particular order)
- Law Enforcement - Child protection focus or offender focus?
- catching downloaders
- focussing on producers
- identifying children
- The problem of ownership of investigations
pictures are international
- e.g. Lucy
- e.g. kg
Slide 103
Thoughts/concerns 2 (in no logical or particular order)
Training for Law Enforcement and other professionals:
- evidential issues related to pictures
- referral onto to specialist units
- tracing the chain of postings
- picture content
- understanding the processes
- knowing the language
Slide 104
Thoughts/concerns 3 (in no logical or particular order)
What to do with Internet offenders
- assumptions about offenders?
- participation in mixed sex offender groups?
- Removal of computer?
Slide 105
Thoughts/concerns 4 (in no logical or particular order)
The evolving Internet
Specific
- developments in computer generated 3D graphics
- notion of community of learners
- 'good' and 'bad' offenders
- improved video compression
- encryption and availability of strong security
- growing commercial involvement and organised crime and links with child sex tourism and child trafficking
Slide 106
Thoughts/concerns 5 (in no logical or particular order)
General
- cognitive functioning and the Internet
- changes in beliefs, values and cognitive styles
- changing states of consciousness, and changes in involvement in more extreme areas
- decentralisation of conventional hierarchies and empowerment of marginal groups
- changing boundaries as a product of range and variety of information
Slide 107
Thoughts/concerns 6 (in no logical or particular order)
The role of the ISP industry
- national self regulation/statutory control
- mandatory reporting of child pornography
- monitoring/censorship/freedom issues
- holding records
- international control
- common standards and values
- 'rogue' countries
Slide 108
Final thoughts - quotations from operator of w0nderland (1)
“So… I'm still wearing the mask in effect… I'm still having to hide who I am. I can't be myself, and I miss being on line for that more than anything else 'cause there's no where I can be myself now”
Slide 109
Final thoughts - quotations from operator of w0nderland (2)
“…if society isn't going to let me be anything other than a paedophile and I've lost the computer… the only thing that's left that I can console myself with is sex… and I know its going to lead to people getting hurt”
Slide 110
The COPINE Project
Department of Applied Psychology
University College
Cork, Ireland
Dr. Max Taylor ( stay@netcom.es )
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