Casos de Polícia

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle; Mary Vaughan
Agression & Violent Behaviour (2005 – in press).

“There is increasing evidence that people use the Internet to avoid negative emotional states, such as boredom, anxiety, or depression. This may be of increasing relevance for sex offenders. While the primary function of accessing the Internet for sex offenders is to obtain material that aids sexual arousal, the Internet functions to help people address some of the more immediate feelings of distress or dissatisfaction in their lives. For those with a sexual interest in children, once online offenders can then download child pornography and masturbate to such images, providing a highly rewarding or reinforcing context for further avoidance. The intensity of such behavior often has properties that offenders call ‘addictive’, with high levels of activity associated with the avoidance of unpleasant emotional states. The aim of this paper is to address issues that relate to emotional avoidance. Rather than having to exclude access to computers or the Internet, offenders, in the context of making explicit personal values and goals, might be helped to accept negative emotions and commit themselves to generating behavioral goals that will move them towards what they personally value”.

Sex offenders, Internet child abuse images and emotional avoidance: The importande of values

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: Modelo do uso problemático da Internet em pessoas com um interesse sexual em crianças
• Projecto COPINE: Sedução de crianças e auto-representação na Internet
• Projecto COPINE: Pedófilos, pornografia e a Internet – Questões de avaliação
• Projecto COPINE: A pornografia infantil e a Internet – Perpetuando um ciclo de abuso
• Projecto COPINE: Tipologia das imagens de pedofilia
• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle
Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 6(1), 93-106.

“Agencies working with sex offenders are starting to see the emergence of people with a sexual interest in children who meet some of their needs through the use of child pornography, or the seduction of children, through the Internet. While CBT models dominate our understanding of sex offenders, there has been little research into the role that such new technologies may play in offending behavior. Data from the COPINE project has been used to generate a model of such offending behavior that emphasizes the role of cognitions in both the etiology, engagement with and problematic use of the Internet for those with a sexual interest in children. Such a model seeks to incorporate contemporary thinking about the role of cognitions in Pathological Internet Use, but applies this from a nonpathological perspective. This model is a first step towards providing a conceptual framework for such offending that will help inform both assessment and therapy”.

Model of Problematic Internet Use in People with a Sexual Interest in Children

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: Sedução de crianças e auto-representação na Internet
• Projecto COPINE: Pedófilos, pornografia e a Internet – Questões de avaliação
• Projecto COPINE: A pornografia infantil e a Internet – Perpetuando um ciclo de abuso
• Projecto COPINE: Tipologia das imagens de pedofilia
• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle
CyberPsychology & Behavior, 4 (5); 597-608.

“This paper presents a case study of a man charged with the offense of downloading child pornography from the Internet. He had used the Internet to traffic child pornography, and, in addition, to locate children to abuse, to engage in inappropriate sexual communication with children, and to communicate with other pedophiles. Such offenses were facilitated by self-representing in Chat rooms as both a child and an adult. The case study illustrates how such offenders move through a repertoire of offending behavior and discusses the role that the Internet can play in supporting inappropriate and disinhibited sexual behavior that victimizes children through the trading of child pornography and possible child seduction. The Internet is seen to play a unique role in allowing individuals to self-represent aspects that might otherwise remain hidden or dormant”.

Child Seduction and Self-Representation on the Internet

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: Pedófilos, pornografia e a Internet – Questões de avaliação
• Projecto COPINE: A pornografia infantil e a Internet – Perpetuando um ciclo de abuso
• Projecto COPINE: Tipologia das imagens de pedofilia
• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle
British Journal of Social Work, 32, 863-875.

“As yet, little is understood of the potential problems and benefits associated with Internet use, and the resulting social outcomes that may arise. This article examines issues that emerged out of a subset of nine interviews with social workers and probation officers, namely the feelings by such practitioners that they did not understand the function of the Internet for adults with a sexual interest in children. The analysis of these data is not examined in detail, rather an attempt is made to address the issues raised through a discussion of the role of child pornography, how it is accessed through the Internet and what implications this might have for assessment. The data are drawn from ongoing research by the COPINE (Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe) Project”.

Paedophiles, Pornography and the Internet: Assessment Issues

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: A pornografia infantil e a Internet – Perpetuando um ciclo de abuso
• Projecto COPINE: Tipologia das imagens de pedofilia
• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle
Deviant Behavior, 23 (4), 331-362.

“13 men convicted of downloading child pornography were interviewed with a view to understanding how these men talked about the photographs and the function such talk played in their accounts. The interviews were informed by earlier work with defended subjects and were analysed within a discursive framework. Quotations are used from the interviews to illustrate the analysis. Six principal discourses emerged within these accounts in relation to child pornography: sexual arousal; as collectibles; facilitating social relationships; as a way of avoiding real life; as therapy and in relation to the Internet. These are discussed in the context of previous research. The analysis illustrates the important role that the Internet plays in increasing sexual arousal to child pornography and highlights individual differences in whether this serves as a substitute or as a blue print for contact offences. It also draws our attention to the important role that community plays in the Internet and how collecting facilitates the objectification of children, and increases the likelihood that in the quest for new images, children continue to be sexually abused. Discourses focussing on both therapy and addiction serve to distance the respondent from personal agency, and allow for continued engagement with child pornography”.

Child pornography and the Internet: Perpetuating a cycle of abuse

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: Tipologia das imagens de pedofilia
• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle; Gemma Holland
The Police Journal, 74 (2); 97-107.

“Over recent years, offences related to the production, possession and distribution of child pornography have assumed great prominence. Public attention has focussed on these crimes as being particularly repellent and deserving of both proactive policing, and when detected full and extensive investigation. Increased awareness of the problem of child pornography has been associated with a parallel recognition of the significance of the Internet as a medium for the distribution of both child pornography and the facilitation and propagation of a number of sexual offences against children. Most European countries have statutes that criminalise possession of child pornography, and it is now regarded as a serious offence in most jurisdictions, attracting significant sentences on conviction”.

Typology of Paedophile Picture Collections

Relacionado

• Projecto COPINE: Pornografia infantil, Internet e delinquência

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Max Taylor; Ethel Quayle; Gemma Holland
ISUMA, The Canadian Journal of Policy Research, 2(2), 94-100.

“Two complementary perspectives on child pornography— legal and psychological—are presented and an emergent typology for understanding the nature of such pictures on the Internet is outlined. Data from the Combating Paedophile Information Networks in Europe (COPINE) project is used to illustrate the nature of the material available to people with a sexual interest in children, where it can be found and how offenders use and are changed by the Internet. It concludes with a consideration of issues that are of concern in relation to child pornography, the Internet and offending behaviour”.

Child Pornography, the Internet and Offending

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O “trio do tabaquinho” (ou quarteto?) é um gangue lusitano composto por 3-4 elementos que têm espalhado o terror na zona do Grande Porto/Vale do Sousa. Armados, devidamente encapuzados e vestidos de igual, têm como motto furtar tabaco de postos de abastecimento. Com a GNR (DIC), PSP e a Polícia Judiciária “à perna” o gangue tem apostado numa “política de continuidade” e realizado assaltos nos mesmos locais. Por enquanto existe uma “estrelinha da sorte”…

O modus operandis utilizado envolve o “carjacking”, a utilização de pés-de-cabra e correntes que usam para arrancar os gradeamentos dos postos de combustíveis que “visitam”. Todos os assaltos sucedem num curto espaço de tempo. O gangue que rouba tabaco, não se faz rogado e também “desvia” pequenos objectos, lubrificantes, etc, apostando no “pequeno furto coleccionador”.

Tudo indica que se tratam de pessoas jovens que residem na zona do Grande Porto.

13 de Junho – Sábado (c. 04:30): Seguem num Mercedes 720 (roubado através de “carjacking” no Porto) que utilizam para se deslocarem até Gandra, Paredes, onde atacam o posto da “Galp”, localizado na Rua Central de Gandra (EN 15).

13 de Junho – Sábado (c. 05:30): Em Castelões de Cepeda, Paredes, assaltam a “Cepsa” local. Na mesma madrugada “entram” na “Cepsa” de Lordelo, localizada na Rua Castro Araújo. Roubam todo o tabaco que se encontram nas máquinas e nos expositores dos dois postos.

23 de Junho – Terça-Feira: O gangue efectua um “reconhecimento” do posto de abastecimento “Freitas” localizado na Rua de Pombal (EN 209), em Lustosa, Lousada. Seguem para a Avenida Pedro Guedes, onde o alvo é a “Cepsa” de Penafiel.

25 de Junho – Quinta-Feira: O gangue “adquire” um Audi A4 preto que se encontra estacionado perto da refinaria da Petrogal, na avenida Coronel Hélder Ribeiro, na marginal de Perafita, Matosinhos. O condutor, um homem de 69 anos residente em Matosinhos, que se encontra no momento dentro do veículo, nem repara no carro que estaciona ao seu lado. Três indivíduos saem do carro e um deles aponta-lhe uma arma, disparando de seguida um tiro para o ar. Um dos elementos entra e segue a toda a velocidade no Audi A4, tendo os restantes seguido no carro com que se deslocaram para aquele local. Minutos depois a PSP de Leça da Palmeira é informada sobre o caso e entra em contacto com a Polícia Judiciária do Porto.

Antes do incêndio da Petrogal a 31 de Julho de 2004, que originou um violento incêndio e o derrame de dezenas de toneladas de crude para a marina de Leça da Palmeira, existia uma câmara de CCTV instalada na torre de iluminação das instalações. Se a mesma ainda existir, as imagens poderão já estar em posse das autoridades.

01 de Julho – Quarta-Feira – (c. 01:15): Em Rebordosa, Paredes, o gangue ataca o posto da “Cepsa”, localizado na Avenida dos Bombeiros Voluntários. Com “grande profissionalismo”, um dos elementos parte o vidro da porta e depara-se com o seguinte cenário: o posto de combustíveis encontra-se vazio. A loja está fechada desde 2007. Oops!

01 de Julho – Quarta-Feira – (c. 02:00): Em Gandra, Paredes, o gangue “visita” (novamente; vide supra) o posto da “Galp”, localizado na Rua Central de Gandra (EN 15). Colocando uma corrente que liga o gradeamento ao carro conseguem arrombar a protecção metálica. Não existem informações sobre a quantidade de tabaco furtado.

01 de Julho – Quarta-Feira – (c. 02:20): Em Valongo, na Rua Dom Pedro IV, têm como alvo o posto de abastecimento “Alves Bandeira”. Usando um pé-de-cabra os “larápios” entram e furtam tabaco no valor de 200 euros. Deixam um rasto de destruição no local.

01 de Julho – Quarta-Feira – (c. 03:25): Em Santo Tirso, na Rua das Rãs, assaltam a Auto-Reparadora do Picoto. Roubam essencialmente tabaco (informação ad nauseam). Segundo informações dos gerentes da auto-reparadora, os prejuízos poderão rondar os 2.000 euros.

Provas forenses e imagens CCTV recolhidas nos vários locais poderão já estar a ser analisadas pelas autoridades. Com estes assaltos, os elementos de investigação criminal envolvidos nas investigações poderão recolher dados interessantes que levem à captura do “gangue do tabaquinho”.

Yannick Carvalho