Justice committee  If you listen to or read anecdotal reports or work in a victims services office as I do as a volunteer, you hear stories that have coloured people's perspective on justice in Canada. When you search on the Internet and actually have contact with people who are luring children, th

Justice committee  I believe that if you're sexually attracted to children, that sexual attraction stays with you for life, but I also believe that through community intervention, such as circles of responsibility, that supervision and managing the sex offender can be conducted in the community, wi

Justice committee  A study that came out of the U.K. last year indicated that the average person who was distributing child pornographic material in the U.K. was 38 years old and was involved in the IT community or had the intelligence to conduct IT programming and software to encrypt his materials

Justice committee  I think that any inappropriate sexual behaviour that children are exposed to changes their thinking about sexual behaviour. My research indicates that a lot of pedophiles use other children sexualized to show children having sex with other children in order for kids to think this

Justice committee  May I respond? I would suggest, although I don't have the facts, that the over 100 children who were rescued in Ontario were rescued from their homes. That's where the production would have occurred. They were sexually assaulted by people who were not strangers, who were uncles,

Justice committee  I'm sorry, I haven't studied conditional sentencing, so I wouldn't really feel informed to comment, but I would say that when I think about the law and particularly this law, there has to be that balance, and I believe that victims and offenders have to see there's that balance.

Justice committee  Thank you. By way of introduction, my name is Catherine Dawson, and I've been engaged in the training of police officers and have worked in the field of criminology for over a decade. My research field is offences committed over the Internet, particularly those involving childre