May 7, 2007, University of Toronto
AGENDA
Opening Remarks 9:00-9:15
- Mike Eisen (Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Canada)
- Andrea Slane (Executive Director, CILP)
Opening Presentation: The Changing Imagery of Childhood (9:15-9:45)
- Patricia Holland (Author of Picturing Childhood, The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK)
- The Changing Imagery of Childhood
Panel: Update on Efforts to Improve Reporting, Investigation and Prosecution of Online Child Exploitation (9:45-11:15)
- David Butt (Kids Internet Safety Alliance (KINSA) and ECPAT International)
- The Fight against Internet Child Abuse: Modelling Progress
- Drew Oosterbaan (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section)
- Cormac Callanan (International Association of Internet Hotline Providers (INHOPE)
- Frédéric Mégret (McGill University, Law)
- The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and Online Child Exploitation
Moderator/Discussant: Alex Smith, Director Law & Technology, Criminal Law Division, Ministry of the Attorney General (Ontario)
Coffee Break (11:15-11:30)
Panel: Profiles of Victims and Offenders (11:30-1:00)
- Ethel Quayle (Dept. of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland)
- Victimisation through images?
- Janis Wolak (Crimes Against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire, USA)
- What makes adolescents vulnerable to online sexual solicitations?
- Dr. Michael Seto (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and University of Toronto, Psychiatry and Criminology)
- Assessing the Risk of Sexual Offending Posed by Child Pornography Offenders
Moderator/Discussant: Lisa Austin (University of Toronto , Law)
LUNCH (1:00-2:00)
Concurrent Workshops (2:00 -3:30)
Workshop #1: The Legal Concept of the Child
- Christine Piper, Brunel University, UK
- The sexless child and accountable youth: shifting concepts?
- Carol Rogerson, University of Toronto, Law
- Andrea Slane, CILP/University of Toronto, Law
- Law, Technology and Youth
Discussant: Nic Sammond, University of Toronto, English (author of Babes in Tomorrowland)
Workshop #2 (for Law Enforcement only): NCECC, CETS and Cybertip
Confirmed:
- Earla-Kim McColl (RCMP – NCECC)
- National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre Services to Law Enforcement
- Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie (retired Toronto Police Services)
- Microsoft’s Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
- Signy Arnason (Cybertip.ca)
Moderator: Det. Sgt. Kimberly Scanlan, Toronto Police Sex Crimes Unit, Child Exploitation/Special Victims
Coffee Break (3:30-3:45)
Panel: Legal Theory and Problems in Child Exploitation Law (3:45-5:15)
- Eric Heinze (Queen Mary, University of London, Law):
- Child Protection: An Absolute Value?
- Bruce Ryder (Osgoode Hall Law School, York)
- The Moral Complexity of Child Pornography Law: Progress and Paradox
- Jane Bailey (U of Ottawa , Law)
- Privacy, Identity & Equality: The Case of Child Pornography
Moderator/Discussant: Lee Ann Chapman, Staff Lawyer, Justice for Children and Youth
Closing Remarks (5:15-5:30)
Reception in the Rowell Room (5:30-6:30)