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Understanding Sex Offending Against Children
Preventing Child Abuse
Donald Findlater
Director of Research and Development
Internet Safety Seminars
for Parents & Carers
..and a couple of other things
Background to Seminars
• Surrey ACPC and LEA 2005 (67 events)
• Hedge Funds Care 2007/2009 (60 & 60)
• Surrey, Hants, Kent, Medway, Sussex, Bucks,
Oxon, Leics
• Materials – Stop!; Childnet; CEOP; IWF
• DVDs – “Jenny’s Story” & “Let’s Fight it
Together”
• 3000+ parents/carers to date
• Presenters – LFF therapist/professional staff
• Critical – not a technical event & v participative
1. Name 5 positive
aspects of the Internet for
children and young
people
2. What harm (if any)
could come to children
and young people as a
result of using the
Internet?
Opportunities and dangers
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Access to global information
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Illegal content
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Educational resources
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Paedophiles, grooming, strangers
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Entertainment, games and fun
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Extreme or sexual violence
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User-generated content production
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Other harmful or offensive content
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Civic or political participation
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Racist/hate material/activities
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Privacy for expression of identity
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Commercial exploitation
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Community involvement/activism
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Biased or mis-information
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Technological expertise and literacy
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Exploitation of personal information
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Career advancement or employment
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Online-bullying, stalking, harassment
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Personal/health/sexual advice
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Gambling, financial scams
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Specialist groups and fan forums
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Self-harm (suicide, anorexia, etc)
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Networking and new friendships
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Invasions/abuse of privacy
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Share experiences with distant others
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Illegal activities (hacking, terrorism)
Sonia Livingstone, Presentation to the London Grid for Learning E-Safety Conference, 20th April 2007
3. Where could you get
information about
Internet safety and
protecting children and
young people online?
Do you know how
your child
uses the Internet?
Supervised vs Unsupervised access
IN SCHOOL
Generally,
supervised,
protected &
monitored
OUT OF
SCHOOL
WE NEED TO DO
MORE THAN
SUPERVISE - WE
NEED TO HELP
EDUCATE
Often no filtering,
supervision or
monitoring
Where is the computer at home?
Developed by Childnet International
Potential dangers to children
Content
 Pornography
 Racism/hate
 Inaccurate
information
Contact
 Threatening
emails
Sex offenders in
chat rooms
Commerce
 Invasion of
privacy
 Blur between
advertising &
content
Developed by Childnet International
Potential dangers to children
Conduct
 Pornography
 Racism/hate
Conduct
 Threatening
emails/texts
Sex offenders in
chat rooms
Conduct
 Identity theft
Cyberbullying
Developed by Childnet International
Pornography
Can be used to sexualise children and young
people
Easily available on the Internet
Children/Young people may deliberately search
for it
Child Pornography
What does the law say?
R v Oliver and others 2002,
(1) images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity;
(2) sexual activity between children, or solo masturbation by a child;
(3) non-penetrative sexual activity between adults and children;
(4) penetrative sexual activity between children and adults;
(5) sadism or bestiality.
What is
‘Personal
Information’?
What can you
do now?
SAFE – Staying safe online involves being careful and thinking
about whether it is safe to give out personal information
MEETING – Meeting up with someone you have contacted in
cyberspace can be dangerous. Only do so with your parent’s/carer’s
permission and then when they can be present.
ACCEPTING – Accepting e-mails or opening files from people
you don’t know can be dangerous. – they may contain viruses or
nasty messages.
RELIABLE
– Anyone can put anything on the net and
remember people can lie and not be who they say they are in chat
rooms.
TELL
– Tell your parent/carer or teacher if someone or
something makes you feel uncomfortable or worried.
Developed by Childnet International
Summary
1) Get involved in your children’s online activity at home. Check
you know what applications they are using, especially chat
rooms, social networks and games played with others online. Ask
who their “e-pals” are. Get them to teach you about how things
work.
2) Use Tools Available –But Don’t Rely On Them 100%
3) Teach the SMART rules or Create your own
4) Encourage Positive Use – Do Your Research
5) Know what the school says about Internet safety
6) Talk to other parents
...and for younger
children...
Results “what action will you take?”
• Discuss the issues with my partner
• Talk to my children about their computer use
and personal information
• Move the computer to a public area
• Install and use filters
• Talk to other parents
• (Review “actions” after 6 months)
Further Information?
Attend a seminar?
…..and the other items
What is SECURUS?
PC monitoring product that allows schools to
• Identify:
– Bullying or threatening behaviour
– Visits to inappropriate internet sites
– Cyber-slacking
– Predator grooming
– Signs of depression or suicide
• Control PC use
– Applications
– Times
– Users
– groups
• Web logs
• Block individual sites
• AUP display/acceptance
How does it work?
• Plug in and play appliance
• Monitors PCs for set key words/phrases (not key logging)
• Saves a screen capture every time a violation occurs
How does it work?
• Monitors PCs for key words and phrases relating to:
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Bullying
Racism
Pornography
Predator Grooming
Drugs
Weapons
Hacking/Downloads
Gambling
Inappropriate Language/SMS
[Bespoke Words & Phrases]
Surrey Pilot – Surrey Police/Securus/LFF
-“I actually felt it was protection… because it could prove
then that I wasn’t going on anything that I shouldn’t be going
on.” (P01)
-“As far as I’m concerned, put it on people’s computers. I
don’t think it should stop. That’s my personal opinion, as an
offender. I think it should go on people’s computers…” (P01)
-“…better to have a 24 hour monitor like that and see the
team once every two months, or once a month…[rather than]
have someone coming in once a week to check your
computer… that would be OTT as far as I was concerned.
Plus I think the neighbours would start to get a bit… ‘what’s
going on’ sort of thing.” (P01)
Surrey Pilot – Surrey Police/Securus/LFF
“[It was] positive from the point of view that you weren’t
constantly being, sort of saying ‘by the way, you’re being
watched’” (P02)
-“I think the most important thing, that you can’t really
measure, is that it acts as a deterrent. That for me is very
important.” (Surrey DI)
-“If the machine was in a tidy state, we could be in and out in
25-30 minutes.” (Securus Technician)
-“I think it’s worked well. In some respects it’s disappointing
there have been no serious violations, but then in other
respects it’s good, because it indicates that they’re not
offending and therefore no-ones being abused.” (Surrey DI)
Services for internet (child
pornography) offenders
and their families
INFORM +
• For those admitting accessing etc. indecent
images of children on-line
• 10 X Weekly sessions
• Up to 8 participants
• Cost £300
Aims of Inform +
• To provide information to aid understanding
of Internet Offending
• To encourage participants to explore their
personal involvement with internet
offending
• To consider practical and realistic methods
of control
Inform+ The Programme
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Offence Pattern
Sexual Arousal and Fantasy Management
Addiction and compulsion
Sexuality and Relationships
Victim Awareness and Empathy
Relapse Prevention
INFORM
For partners/family/friends
Up to 8 participants
5 X Weekly sessions of 2 hours each
Cost: £150
Aims of INFORM
To provide factual information about
‘child pornography’ and the Internet
To arrive at a better understanding of the
process of Internet offending
To examine the notion of risk as associated
with this behaviour
Aims of INFORM
To recognise and explore the impact of
Internet offending on the families of
offenders
To discuss practical ways in which Internet
offenders can be helped/help themselves not
to re-offend
Thanks for your attention.
Please get in touch
Donald Findlater
Teresa Hughes
Chris Pummell
Steph Hunter
Tel: 01372 847160
Mob: 07778 532851
E-mail:[email protected]