The Crimes Against Children Research Center recently published a paper on the effect of LE viewing so much CP when working cases. The paper is a good read, but is, unfortunately very difficult to get to on the CCRC site (web masters, why make things so difficult to find???). The paper can be found HERE, Thanks to Bill Walsh for pointing me to the paper.
The study is drawn from the results of interviews with 500 ICAC members across the country. It underlines the fact that there is no such thing as "... the man of steel." It adds emphasis to the importance of sessions at conferences such as my "Living With The Memories". Hopefully such sessions will continue to be offered at various conferences in the future.
I just returned from a week in Utah and Texas. The Joining Forces conference in Utah was well attended and had many excellent presenters. The somewhat smaller, but extremely friendly SouthWest Region Crimes Against Children conference was a pleasure to attend. Thanks to all who worked so hard to put these two conferences together.
I did a phone interview with 48 Hours when in Texas. The interview raised (again) the reality of what happens when we have offenders released unsupervised. While I fully understand the public's emotional need to have offenders "serve their entire sentence", it really doesn't serve to enhance public safety. Released offenders need supervision and monitoring for some period of time. When they "kill their number", they are often released with no supervision. This is NOT good. I think public safety is better served by releasing them a bit earlier and having officers supervise their re-entry into the community. Unfortunately, the harder-core offenders (the most dangerous) often complete their entire sentence inside the walls, and walk into the community with little or no supervision. We need to think about the purpose of parole and post-incarceration supervision if we are truly interested in enhancing public safety.
I will be most interested to see how the 48 Hours story unfolds. I doubt any of my comments will make the air... I doubt they will make "...good television".
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