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Becta East of England Regional Event (LSCB e-safety 06.11.08) DI Paul

Becta East of England Regional Event (LSCB e-safety 06.11.08) DI Paul Doran Major Crime Specialist Investigations. Learning Environment.

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Becta East of England Regional Event (LSCB e-safety 06.11.08) DI Paul

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  1. Becta East of England Regional Event (LSCB e-safety 06.11.08) DI Paul Doran Major Crime Specialist Investigations

  2. Learning Environment • The aim of this presentation is to give a Police perspective in order to increase awareness and enable safe use of the internet as a social/education tool. • There may be people here today who have either been a victim of abuse or have a sexual interest in children. • We ask you not to discuss these issues during the presentation but to seek professional advice as soon as possible. • There will be no images of abuse, however, the subject matter is very emotive, please fell free to take a break at any time during this presentation.

  3. How many sex offenders are there in England and Wales? • Estimate; 30% of Adults were abused as children • Only 3% of victims report to police • Out of which 3% of allegations lead to convictions • In 1993 there were 260,000 convicted sex offenders. • The Maximum Prison population is 84,000 • The Answer to the question is….. • We don’t know!

  4. Most child sex offenders target children who are unknown to them and are located in public places • The myth of ‘stranger danger’ • Self report (Smallbone & Wortley, 2000) • 56.5% lived with child • 36.9% knew child • 6.5% stranger • Arrests (Simon & Gzoba, 2006) • 19.5% parent • 24.5% other family • 43% acquaintance • 12.7% stranger

  5. KEY MESSAGE • Child abduction and sexual murder is very rare in comparison to the other ways in which children are sexually abused

  6. Finkelhor – ‘A clinical application’Adapted from:- D Finkelhor Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory & Research 1986 Sex with a child MOTIVATION ‘Wanting to’ INTERNAL INHIBITORS ‘Conscience’ (& Fear) EXTERNAL INHIBITORS ‘Others’ (Creating Opportunity) OVERCOME VICTIM RESISTANCE ‘Doing it and getting away with it’

  7. What are we dealing with?

  8. Pathway Model Assumes four sets of clinical problems evident in Child Abuse; • Intimacy deficits • Sexual scripts • Emotional dysregulation • Cognitive distortions

  9. To complicate matters still further! • There are Mental Health issues to factor in • Personality/Behavioural traits such as Disorders and Psychopathy

  10. How important is Fantasy • Enhances deviant sexual arousal • Some offenders record their crimes, why? • 1) To enable the offender to relive the crime for masturbatory acts • 2)To allow them to retain a ‘trophy’ • 3)To use the recordings to transform fantasy into reality.

  11. The role of Paraphilia • This is used to intensify fantasy, it can involve non human objects and the suffering or humiliation of the victim. • Examples include; exhibitionism, fetishism,frotteurism,sadomasochism, necrophilia, voyeurism.

  12. How serious is viewing child abuse on the internet? • It enforces the Cognitive distortion • It intensifies the Fantasy • It creates opportunity through ‘Grooming’ to fulfil objective

  13. The numbers • 4.2 million Pornographic web sites • 100,000 web sites offering child abuse images • 68 million daily search engine requests for porn • $2.5 billion internet porn industry annual revenue

  14. Finkelhor – ‘A clinical application (a)’Adapted by Donald Findlater and Tink Palmer from:- D Finkelhor Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory & Research 1986 Sex with a child Thoughts MOTIVATION ‘Wanting to’ INTERNAL INHIBITORS ‘Conscience’ EXTERNAL INHIBITORS ‘Creating Opportunity’ OVERCOME VICTIM RESISTANCE ‘Doing it and getting away with it’

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