Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Professionals Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Children 5th Edition, 2010 This is the Law Enforcement "Bible" on "child molesters" and "pedophiles". It describes what we do, how we do it, and how we are seen by society. Yeah - It contains "tips on how to find and molest boys". He made a career out of arresting and interviewing thousands of us. His description of us is mostly positive! We treat boys well, form good relationships with our Young Friends, and almost never do them harm. So, why should we be arrested? Because, "It's against the law." Destroy the lives and families of tens-of-thousands of otherwise law-abiding, responsible community members? You see, he's "just doing his job". :-/ DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/publications/nc70.pdf ----- Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis For Professionals Investigating the Sexual Exploitation of Children In cooperation with the D.O.J/F.B.I Fifth Edition 2010 Kenneth V. Lanning Former Supervisory Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Contents Introduction.....1 Cautions.....1 Overview.....4 “Stranger Danger”.....5 Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse.....6 Acquaintance Child Molestation.....7 Continuum of Relationship.....9 Definitions.....13 Annoying Nitpicking Or Important Necessity?.....13 Defining Terms.....14 Sexual Victimization of Children.....14 Sexual Exploitation of Children.....14 Child.....15 Paraphilias and Sexual Ritual.....16 Child Molester.....18 Pedophile.....19 Key Concepts.....21 Sexual Activity.....22 “Nice-Guy” Offender.....23 Compliant Child Victims.....24 Grooming/Seduction.....26 Law-Enforcement Typology..…29 Child Molester Versus Pedophile.....29 Needs of Law Enforcement.....31 Old Typology.....32 Newer Typology.....32 Situational-Type Child Molesters.....35 Preferential-Type Child Molesters.....37 Who Cares?.....39 Summary of Typology.....41 Problem Areas.....43 Combination Offenders.....43 Nuisance Sex Offenders.....44 Importance.....44 Case Evaluation.....45 Multiple Offenders.....46 Incest Cases.....47 Female Offenders.....48 Adolescent Offenders.....48 Identifying Preferential Sex Offenders.....51 Overview.....51 Preferential Sex Offenders.....52 Characteristics.....52 “True” Pedophiles.....53 Application.....59 Exaggerated Example.....60 Profiling?.....60 Acquaintance-Exploitation Cases.....63 Overview.....63 Dynamics of Cases.....64 “Experts”.....64 Risk to Other Children.....64 Role of Parents/Guardians.....65 Disclosure Continuum Status.....65 Multiple Victims.....65 Multiple Offenders.....65 Gender of the Victim.....65 Sexual-Exploitation Versus Sexual-Abuse Cases.....66 Types of Multiple-Victim Cases.....67 “Historical” Multiple-Victim Cases.....67 Overview.....67 Characteristics.....67 Age of Consent.....68 Offender Strategies.....71 Control.....71 The Seduction Process.....71 Cases Involving Multiple Child Victims.....74 Offender-Victim Bond.....75 High-Risk Situations.....76 Collection of Child Pornography and Erotica.....79 Collection.....79 Child Pornography.....80 Commercial Versus Homemade.....82 Technical Versus Simulated.....83 Child Erotica (“Pedophile Paraphernalia”).....85 Published Material Relating to Children.....86 Unpublished Material Relating to Children.....87 Pictures, Photographs, and Videos of Children.....87 Souvenirs and Trophies.....88 Miscellaneous.....88 Motivation for Collection.....89 Use of Collection.....90 Characteristics of Collection.....91 Important.....91 Constant.....91 Permanent.....92 Organized.....92 Concealed.....92 Shared.....92 The Role of Law Enforcement.....93 Value of Erotica.....93 Evaluation of Child Pornography.....95 Determining Age.....95 Identifying Child Pornography and Erotica Victims.....96 Sexually Explicit Conduct and Lasciviousness.....97 Hypothetical Example.....101 Evaluation Criteria.....102 Guilty Knowledge.....105 “Expert” Search Warrants.....106 Child Pornographer or Molester?.....107 Research and Court Findings.....108 Child-Abuse Images?.....110 Investigative and Prosecutive Priorities.....111 Summary and Recommendations.....113 Public Awareness and Prevention.....113 Recommendations.....114 Technology-Facilitated Cases.....117 Overview.....117 Illegal Sexual Activity.....118 Sexting.....119 Legal Sexual Activity.....120 Understanding Behavior.....121 Information-Technology Offenders.....121 Situational Offenders.....122 Preferential Offenders.....122 Miscellaneous “Offenders”.....123 Evaluating Sex Offenders Who Use Information Technology.....124 “Concerned Civilians”.....125 What About “Predators”?.....126 Use of Information Technology.....126 Organization.....127 Communicate, Fuel, and Validate.....127 Maintenance of Business/Financial Records.....128 Child Pornography.....129 Interact and Solicit Sex With Children.....130 Comments Concerning Prevention.....132 Proactive Investigations.....133 Behavioral Defenses.....134 Staleness of Probable Cause.....136 Summary.....136 Investigating Acquaintance Sexual Exploitation.....137 Overview.....137 The Law-Enforcement Perspective.....138 Emotion Versus Reason.....138 The “Big-Picture” Approach.....140 Interview (Listen).....141 Law-Enforcement Role.....141 The Disclosure/Reporting Continuum.....141 Establishing Rapport and Clarifying Terms.....142 Video Recording.....143 General Rules and Cautions.....144 Assess and Evaluate.....145 “Children Never Lie”.....146 “If They Have the Details, It Must Have Happened”.....147 Areas of Evaluation.....149 Contagion.....150 Summary of Evaluation and Assessment.....152 Corroborate.....153 Document Behavioral Symptoms of Sexual Victimization.....153 Document Patterns of Behavior.....154 Identify Adult Witnesses and Suspects.....155 Medical Evidence.....156 Other Victims.....156 Search Warrants.....157 Physical Evidence.....157 Child Pornography and Child Erotica.....158 Information Technology.....158 Consensual Monitoring.....158 Subject Confessions.....159 Surveillance.....160 Investigating Multiple-Victim Cases.....160 Understanding the Seduction Process.....161 Understanding the Preferential Offender.....164 Proactive Approach.....165 Establish Communication With Parents/Guardians.....166 Conclusion.....167 After Identification.....169 Pedophile Defenses.....169 Denial.....169 Minimization.....169 Justification.....169 Fabrication.....170 Attack.....171 After Conviction “Cooperation”.....172 Suicide.....172 Bond Hearing.....172 Sentencing Issues.....173 Treatment.....178 Investigative Challenges.....181 The “Ideal” Victim.....181 Naturally Curious.....181 Easily Led by Adults.....181 Need for Attention and Affection.....181 Need to Defy Parents/Guardians.....182 Children as Witnesses.....182 Maligned Investigator.....182 Societal Attitudes.....183 Summary Quotes: “The Cliff Notes”.....185 Appendix I: References.....187 Appendix II: Appellate Case Decisions.....191 Appendix III: The Investigator’s Basic Library.....193 "This manual is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or professional opinion on specific facts. Information provided in this manual may not remain current or accurate, so recipients should use this manual only as a starting point for their own independent research and analysis. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. This project was supported by Grant No. 2010-MC-CX-K001 awarded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®, 1-800-THE-LOST®, Child Victim Identification Program®, and CyberTipline® are registered trademarks of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Dedication This publication is dedicated to child victims of sexual exploitation and the organization that allowed me to devote most of my 30-year career as a Special Agent to fighting “crimes against children.” To the Federal Bureau of Investigation I also dedicate this publication to my wife and children, without whose support for all these years I could not have maintained my objectivity and balance. To Kathy, Melissa, and Rick Kenneth V. Lanning, M.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (Retired) Mr. Lanning is currently a consultant in the area of crimes committed against children. He was a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for more than 30 years before he retired in 2000. He has been involved in the professional study of the criminal aspects of deviant sexual behavior since 1973. He specialized in the study of the sexual victimization of children after being transferred to the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, in 1981. He was assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit from 1981 to 1996, Missing and Exploited Children’s Task Force from 1996 to 1998, and National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) from 1998 to 2000. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and former member of the APSAC Advisory Board. He is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Mr. Lanning has made numerous presentations at major national and regional conferences about the sexual victimization of children, child abuse and neglect, and missing and exploited children. He has testified before the U.S. Attorney General’s Task Force on Family Violence, President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime, and U.S. Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography. Mr. Lanning has also testified on seven occasions before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and many times as an expert witness in state and federal court. He has consulted on thousands of cases involving deviant sexual behavior, the sexual victimization of children, missing and exploited children, and the use of computers and the Internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children. Mr. Lanning has published articles in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and other professional journals. He is a chapter author in Child Pornography and Sex Rings; Pornography: Research Advances and Policy Considerations; Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation; Out of Darkness; Viewing Child Pornography on the Internet; Medical, Legal, & Social Science Aspects of Child Sexual Exploitation; and the APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment. He has authored monographs titled Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis and Child Sex Rings: A Behavioral Analysis that have been widely distributed by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC). He was the Project Manager for research projects on An Analysis of Infant Abductions and Child Molesters Who Abduct whose findings were edited by Mr. Lanning and Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess and published by NCMEC. Mr. Lanning is the 1990 recipient of the Jefferson Award for Research from the University of Virginia, 1996 recipient of the Outstanding Professional Award from APSAC, 1997 recipient of the FBI Director’s Annual Award for Special Achievement for his career accomplishments in connection with missing and exploited children, and 2009 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Service from the National Children’s Advocacy Center. He has lectured before and trained thousands of law-enforcement officers and criminal-justice professionals.[...] DOWNLOAD HERE: https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/publications/nc70.pdf |