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How can potential and actual abusers be engaged?NatCen Social Research & Stop it Now! UK and Ireland
#preventingCSA
15th May 2014
Lessons from the UK research
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Profile of helpline users
Table : Calls to the Helpline by caller group, 2013
Caller group Calls Callers N % N %
Adults concerned about their own behaviour 3,493 56% 1445 41%
Adults concerned about the behaviour of
another adult1,432 23% 969 27%
Adults concerned about a child or young
person's sexual behaviour273 4% 198 6%
Adults concerned about a child who may have
been abused236 4% 201 6%
Professionals 331 5% 303 9%
Survivors of child sexual abuse 156 2% 124 4%
Other callers 357 6% 301 9%
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Profile of users concerned about their own behaviour
Adults concerned about their own behaviour – whether had committed an offence or not Calls Callers N % N %
Committed an offence (all forms of CSA) 3023 87 1197 83
Internet offences 2631 1016
Non-internet offences 392 181
Not offended but concerned they might
(all CSA) 470 13 248 17
Internet risk 80 38
Non-internet risk 390 210
Profile of users who have offended online
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Barriers to helpline use: all users
External Low awareness of provision Confusion over what is offered Resource-related constraints on access
Internal Shame about offending / shame about not noticing Minimising behaviour / perceived as minimising risk Anxiety over being detected / over impacts on family
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Catalysts for helpline use: All users
External Police activity / arrest Sign-posting by professional Recommendation from family Search: information / inappropriate
Internal Acute distress, anxiety, shock: for offender and for others Relief at having been discovered / having some support Recognition that feelings/behaviour is or could be harmful
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Splash Pages and Warning Banners
Splash Pages/Warning Banners likely to be most effective when:
Early intervention
Capacity to manage
behaviour
High motivation to desist
Statement about illegality/ harm + encouragement
to seek help
Splash Pages and Warning Banners
Recognise risk of detection
Deter use of online CSA
images
Recognise behaviour as problematic
Engage with prevention
services
Recognise support available to address behaviour
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Enabling helpline use: general advertising
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Posters in public buildings such as GP surgeries
Information where people can note it in private
Billboards
TV, radio and print media
Raising profile of helpline among professionals
Enabling helpline use: posters
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Enabling helpline use: agency referral/ signposting
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UK Helpline business cards
Helpline has seen an increase in calls from people who have offended online (740 new callers in 2012 compared with 48 in 2003)
Influenced by increased profile of Helpline among Police and Probation – following efforts by Stop it Now! UK to inform police forces across the nations
Enabling helpline use: media campaigns
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TV adverts produced by Stop! NL and the Prevention Project Dunkelfeld.
Enabling helpline use: child protection legislation
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For potential/undetected abusers, accessing help may be constrained by requirement of child protection legislation and practice to pass identifying information about risk to the authorities.
Wider policy discussion about how best to use reporting mechanisms to keep children safe.
Stop it Now! UK and Ireland
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Stop it Now! UK: Users
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Engaging potential/undetected abusers
Online strategies
Broader promotion
How else do potential/undetected abusers hear about Stop it Now!
Gaps in provision for potential/undetected abusers?
Splash pages: early indications
The internet industry has no method for ‘counting’ how many times ‘splash pages’ show.
Since August 2013:26 people have contact the Helpline via splash pages16 callers, 10 emailersAged from ‘under 20’ – 60 yearsOne female
Range of issues reported:Heavy adult pornography use Viewing indecent images of children for some time
Google Adwords: Stop it Now!
Two adverts running against 129 keywords
Child abuse images: overall figures
Enabling helpline use: demand
All calls and callers to the Helpline 2002-2013
Enabling helpline use: capacity
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Year Month Number of answered calls Number of missed calls2013
April 490 810
May 516 1,613
June 465 1,983
July 538 2,136
August 515 2,576
September 551 2,588
October 564 2,811
November 574 2,790
December 456 2,476
2014
January 545 2,102
February 520 1,544
March 488 2,963
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