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2nd International Symposium on Online Child Exploitation 2007

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)
    • Cybertip

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)