CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IMAGES ONLINE (CSAIO) Confronting the Problem: Research Policy Practice Thursday, June 26 and Friday, 27, 2014 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Jorgenson Hall 380 Victoria Street (Pedestrian Walkway) The Commons Room POD 250
Conference Presentations Plenary Address: Dr. Ethel Quayle, Senior Lecturer, School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh, and Director, COPINE (Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe) Project The Role of Child Sexual Abuse Images in Coercive and Non- Coercive Relationships Plenary Address: Julia von Weiler, Director, Innocence in Danger, Berlin, Germany Care and Treatment of Child Victims of Child Pornographic Exploitation (CPE) in Germany Dr. Jennifer Martin, Assistant Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University It s Just an Image, Right?: Practitioners Understanding of Child Sexual Abuse Images Online and Effects on Victims Dr. Andrea Slane, Associate Professor and Director, Legal Studies Program, University of Ontario Institute of Technology Legal Conceptions of Harm and Wrongdoing Related to Child Sexual Abuse Images in Online Environments. Dr. Roberta Sinclair, Manager, Program Research and Development, Canadian Police Centre for Missing and Exploited Children/Behavioural Sciences Branch, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Internet- Facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Dr. Lara Karaian, Assistant Professor, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University 'Sexy Selfies' and the Magnified Gaze of Canadian Child Protectionism Dr. Grant Charles, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia and Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children s Hospital One Size Doesn't Fit All: The Need for Multi- Systemic, Multi- Perspectives on Dealing with Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse Images Online Bill Naughton, LL.B, Chief Investigator and Associate Deputy Representative for Children and Youth, British Columbia. The Low- Tech Barriers to High- Tech Prosecutions Dr. Siegi Schuler, Director, Schuler Counseling and Consultation Pornography and Its Impact on Adolescent Sexual Development
Symposium Schedule Day 1 - Thursday, June 26th: 8:30-9:10 Seating and Continental Breakfast 9:10-9:45 Welcome and Introductions: Jennifer Martin and Kiaras Gharabaghi 9:45-10:45 Panel 1: Crossover of Clinical and Legal Issues Dr. Jennifer Martin, Dr. Andrea Slane, Dr. Grant Charles 10:45-11:00 Refreshments 11:00-12:00 Roundtable Response 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1:00-1:30 Plenary Address: Dr. Ethel Quayle 1:30-2:45 Panel 2: Clinical Issues Dr. Ethel Quayle, Julia von Weiler, Dr. Siegi Schuler 2:45 3:00 Refreshments 3:00 4:00 Roundtable Response 4:00 4:30 Wrap- Up and Plans for Day 2: Jennifer Martin and Andrea Slane 4:30 6:30 Reception Day 2 - Friday, June 27th: 8:30 9:00 Continental Breakfast 9:00 9:15 Welcome Back: Jennifer Martin and Andrea Slane 9:15 9:45 Plenary Addresses: Julia von Weiler 9:45 11:00 Panel 3: Investigation Issues Dr. Roberta Sinclair, Dr. Lara Karaian, Bill Naughton 11:00 11:15 Refreshments 11:15 12:15 Roundtable Response 12:15 1:15 Lunch 1:15 2:30 Small Working Groups 2:30 2:45 Refreshments 2:45 4:00 Working Group Reports 4:00 4:30 Next Steps and Concluding Remarks: Jennifer Martin, Andrea Slane, Kiaras Gharabaghi Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided on both days. Please let us know if you require any specific accommodation in order to attend this symposium.
VENUE: Jorgenson Hall, POD 250 (2 nd Floor) Ryerson University Toronto, Ontario Funding support for this symposium was received from: Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University The Edge Lab, Ryerson University Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth School of Social Work, University of British Columbia Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology This symposium is sponsored by:
Child Sexual Abuse Images Online Conference Presenters June 26- June 27, 2014 Ethel Quayle is a Senior Lecturer in clinical psychology in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the COPINE research which until September 2008 was based at University College Cork, Ireland. She is a clinical psychologist and as a practitioner worked with both sex offenders and their victims. For the last fifteen years she has been conducting research in the area of technology- mediated crimes, collaborating internationally with government and non- government agencies in the context of research, policy and practice. Her most recent book with Kurt Ribsl from the Univeristy of North Carolina was p ublished in 2012 and is called Internet Child Pornography: understanding and preventing on- line child abuse and is published by Routledge Taylor- Francis. In addition to academic research activities she plays an active role in a number of government and non- government organisations. Julia von Weiler Dr. Ethel Quayle Confronting the Problem Research Policy Practice Julia von Weiler studied Psychology at New York University and the Free University, Berlin. During her studies in New York she interned at the Children s Safety Project in New York City, where she provided support for abused children. From 1992 to 1994 she worked as a pedagogue in the Mädchenvilla, the first residential project of its kind in Germany for abused girls aged 4 to 14, which was situated in Beckum. She was a board member of its supporting association from 1993 to 2000. From 1999 to 2002, Julia von Weiler provided counselling for sexually abused girls and boys as well as their guardians in a counselling drop- in centre in Cologne. Until 2007 she then headed the psychology department at the Kind in Düsseldorf ggmbh, a diagnostic and therapeutic institution for providing in- patient treatment for abused children aged 3 to 12 (www.kid- facheinrichtung.de). Since 2003 she h as been director of Innocence in Danger e.v., the German section of an international network working against sexual abuse, which is particularly committed to preventing the spread of child abusive images through the internet (www.innocenceindanger.de). Innocence in Danger e.v. was part of the European research ROBERT (Risk Taking Online Behaviour Empowerment Through Research and Training) and today takes part in SPIRTO (Self- Produced Images Risk Taking Online). Dr. Grant Charles Dr. Grant Charles is Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Affiliated Associate Professor, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at the British Columbia Children s Hospital. He also holds adjunct appointments at the Universities of M anitoba and Victoria. Prior to coming to the University of British Columbia, he worked in a variety of mental health, special education and child welfare settings. He has p ublished extensively on issues related to young p eople and families. He currently serves as special advisor to the British Columbia Representative for Children and Youth.
Dr. Jennifer Martin Jennifer Martin is Assistant Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Ryerson University. Jennifer has considerable experience in the field of children's mental health working with children and their families, consulting to children s day treatment programs, providing trauma assessments and treatment for children and youth who have been sexually abused, and facilitating support groups for p arents of children who have experienced interpersonal trauma. She maintains a small private practice as therapist and consultant in children s mental health. Her research interests include child sexual abuse, trauma, child sexual abuse images online, online sexual exploitation, and the role of new information and communication technologies in child and youth care work and clinical practice. Related to the symposium, Jennifer s Doctoral dissertation, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explored practitioners understanding of child sexual abuse images on the Internet and was nominated for the CAGS/PROQUEST- UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award. She co- authored the article Sexual Abuse Images Online: Expanding the Ecology of the Child which appeared in The Journal of Child Sexual Abuse in 2013. Her article It s Just an Image, Right? : Practitioners Understanding of Child Sexual Abuse Images Online and Effects on Victims was published in the journal Child & Youth Services in 2014 and her article Child Sexual Abuse Images Online: Grappling with Assessment, Treatment, and Training is currently in review. Dr. Andrea Slane Dr. Andrea Slane is an Associate Professor and Director, Legal Studies Program of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Faculty in 2009, Dr. Slane was Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. She obtained her JD (with Honours) from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California in S an Diego. Her research interests include Information Law; Intellectual Property; Law and Technology; Privacy; Cyberbullying; Cybercrime; Internet Law; and Online Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth. With regard to the topic of this symposium, Dr. Slane completed a year- long study of Canadian Internet safety education and online child sexual exploitation crime prevention strategies in 2009. The report, entitled Child Sexual Exploitation, Technology and Crime Prevention Education: Keeping Pace with the Risks? was funded b y and submitted to Public Safety Canada. Her article From Scanning to Sexting: The Scope of Protection of Dignity- based Privacy in Canadian Child Pornography Law appeared in Osgoode Hall Law Journal in 2010, and Luring Lolita: The Age of Consent and the Burden of Responsibility for Online Luring in Global Studies of Childhood in 2011. Bill Naughton, LL.B, Bill Naughton is the Associate Deputy Representative, CID, and lead for the Monitoring team at the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth. Bill joined the Representative s office as a consultant and investigator in 2011 and was the Director of Critical Injuries and Death Reviews and Investigations in 2012. Prior to joining the Office of the Representative, Bill had a long career at the Victoria Police Department, leaving in 2010 as Deputy Chief. In this role, he was an advocate for innovative and collaborative approaches to addressing addictions, mental illness, and homelessness. He has a keen understanding of how social conditions affect children and their families. As a police officer, Bill h as worked on or overseen a wide range of homicide investigations including investigations of child deaths and sudden infant deaths. Bill participated in removing children from unsafe home conditions, and working with child welfare authorities to protect vulnerable children. He also has extensive experience in investigating gang violence, drugs and police misconduct. He headed the VPD s detective d ivision, specialized in the management of high- risk incidents and commanded many of the largest public events in Victoria. Bill s experience and background enables him to work effectively and positively with the broad range of individuals, organizations and officials involved in the Representative s investigations and public reporting. Bill has a bachelor s degree from the University of B.C. and a law degree from the University of Victoria and has taught criminal law at the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
Dr. Roberta Sinclair Roberta participated in the development of the Centre and is involved in many law enforcement focused initiatives. The Centre is composed of three national programs: the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre, the National Centre for Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains, and Behavioural Sciences and International Operations. The research unit falls under Strategic and Operational Support Services and engages in operationally- relevant research that supports the investigational mandates in all of these national program areas. Roberta is also an adjunct professor in the Sociology and Anthropology department and the Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University. Her Doctoral work focused on sexual exploitation in youth dating relationships and she received a University Senate Medal for this work. Roberta has several publications in such areas as sexual abuse, Internet- facilitated child sexual exploitation, youth and violence, violence against women, gender development, offender trends (youth and adult) and correctional focused research. In addition, Dr. Sinclair has presented her research at various conferences, workshops and law enforcement training sessions nationally and internationally, and has participated on several crime and youth, and violence against women panels. In 2012, Dr. Sinclair received a Queens Jubilee M edal for outstanding work in the area of Internet- facilitated child sexual exploitation. Roberta was also recently highlighted on the RCMP website for International Womens Day recognizing her as a woman who inspires change within the RCMP. Dr. Lara Karaian Lara Karaian is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Carleton University. She is the recipient of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2012-2014) for her project entitled Selfies, Sexuality and Teens: A Canadian Study which examines how the courts and crime prevention efforts such as criminal diversion programs, online Internet Safety initiatives, and televised p ublic service announcements (PSAs) construct and propose to regulate teenage digital sexual expression. As a result of her work in this area the Law Reform Committee of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, invited Dr. Karaian to act as an Expert Consultant for their International Consultation on Sexting Inquiry. Dr. Karaian has been an organizing member of the annual international conference Critical Perspectives: Criminology & Social Justice, since 2009. She has published in Theoretical Criminology, Social and Legal Studies, Crime Media Culture and The Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. Dr. Siegi Schuler Since 1994, Dr. Siegi Schuler has specialized in the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents who have experienced interpersonal trauma (physical, sexual, emotional abuse, and neglect), children who display problematic sexual behaviour, adolescents who have sexually offended, and at- risk youth, and their families. Between 2003 and 2014, Dr. Schuler functioned as the Clinical Director at the Halton Trauma Centre/Radius Child and Youth Services, a children s mental health agency specializing in servicing children, adolescents, and families who have experienced interpersonal trauma and sexual violence. Dr. Schuler regularly provides training and consultation in his areas of clinical interest and practice, and he also consults to the Hospital for Sick Children, Tele- Psychiatry Program, the National Ballet School, and Youth Connections Residential Program. Dr. Schuler is a faculty member at Ryerson University, in the School of Child and Youth Care and a Sessional Instructor in Graduate Studies, at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Dr. Schuler has published several book chapters and best practice documents in his areas of clinical interest. Broadly, Dr. Schuler s research interests encompass issues related to childhood trauma, adolescents who have committed sexual offences, and the influence of sexual media on adolescent sexual development. Dr. Schuler's private practice, Schuler Counselling and Consultation, is situated in Toronto, Canada.