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Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E75

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E75 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Parental ļ¬gures who supply children for pornographic and prostitution purposes include natural parents, foster parents, and group home workers. The supplier may operate a foster home as in the case of a self-acclaimed clergyman, who by his own estimates sold approximately 200,000 photos each year, with an income from this operation in excess of $60,000.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E74

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E74 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   One such facility had a mail order division that promised, through its advertisements in “adult” magazines, conļ¬dential photo ļ¬nishing. These advertisements were also found in periodicals catering to clientele with special sexual interests.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E73

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E73 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   A photographic development laboratory often has a storefront business that handles photographic orders such as holiday pictures, while its mail order business is advertised in magazines.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E72

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E72 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The professional procurers who supply children also provide photographs and ļ¬lms through whole- sale distributors and adult bookstores. Another source of professional distribution is photographic processing facilities.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E71

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E71 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   While these photo laboratories can provide services to many illegal operations, they also present some problems to professional pornographers, who may ļ¬nd their photographs or ļ¬lms in magazines or adult bookstores without their knowledge and prior to their own distribution.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E70

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E70 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The professional distributors include the pornographer, who has access to an illegal photographer, who in turn generally owns a clandestine photo laboratory and ļ¬lm processor.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E69

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E69 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Suppliers. Suppliers of child pornography include pedophiles, professional distributors, and parental ļ¬gures. Pedophiles with economic resources and community status may organize their own group to have access to children and cover their illegal intentions, or they may work within the frame- work of existing youth organizations.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E68

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E68 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   This procedure ensures that the subscriber does not know where the operation originates and that law enforcement has difļ¬culty tracing the operation. Law enforcement needs to be aware that child pornography is also being distributed through computer programs, chatrooms, the Web, cell phones, and PayPal.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E67

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E67 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Often a laundering process may be used. For example, buyers send their responses to another country; the mail, received by the overseas forwarding agent, is opened, and cash or checks are placed in a foreign bank account; the order is remailed under a different cover back to the United States.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E66

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E66 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Circulation mechanism. Various mechanisms for circulation include the mail (photographs, coded letters), tape cassettes, CB radio, telephone, and beepers. The mail is a major facilitator for circulation of child pornography.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E65

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E65 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In the ļ¬lms, the child is often following cues provided by someone standing off-camera. Also, in audiotapes, the children may be heard conversing with age-appropriate laughter and noises, as well as using language that is highly sexual and suggestive of explicit behaviors.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E64

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E64 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Items of trade. Items of trade refer to the children, photographs, ļ¬lms, and tapes. The degree of sexual explicitness and activity may vary. For example, photographs range from so-called innocent poses of children in brief attire taken at public parks, swimming pools, arcades, or similar places where children congregate to carefully directed movies portraying child sub- jects in graphic sexual activities.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E63

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E63 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations Investigation requires an understanding of the typical operation of a syndicated ring. The organizational components of the ring are the items of trade, the circulation mechanisms, the supplier of the items, the self-regulating mechanism, the system of trades, and the proļ¬t aspect.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E62

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E62 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Common Forensic Findings. The victimization is usually reported by a third party, and little, if any, forensic evidence is immediately available. To obtain forensic evidence, detailed medical and psychiatric examinations of the victims is required.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E61

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E61 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. There can be many locations, and there are many levels of material created. Information and details about locations can be obtained from the pornography itself. Most recent locations will have all the equipment necessary to create the material.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E60

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E60 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Deļ¬ning Characteristics Victimology. The syndicated ring, a well-established commercial enterprise, involves multiple offenders as well as multiple victims.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E59

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E59 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   : SYNDICATED CHILD SEX RING Syndicated child sex rings have a well-structured organization that recruits children, produces pornography, delivers sexual services, and establishes an extensive network of customers.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E58

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E58 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Over a year later, the state’s board of medicine revoked his license. The other defendants in the ring plea-bargained their charges, and there were no further trials.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E57

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E57 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Outcome The jury, sequestered for the nineteen-day trial, deliberated two and one-half days before reaching a verdict of guilty. The judge sentenced the physician to ļ¬ve years’ probation on the condition he undergo psychiatric treatment.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E56

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E56 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Offender Characteristics The defendant, a pediatrician and psychiatrist, claimed in his defense that he went to the apartment as part of a research study, which was submitted to a journal after his indictment and subsequently published in a sex research journal.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E55

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E55 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He brought his younger brother to the apartment, and both had sex with the man. At age fourteen he was “turning tricks” and charging ten dollars for oral sex and twenty dollars for anal sex. At that point he met the defendant.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E54

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E54 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Another victim testiļ¬ed that at age twelve, he had met the third witness through friends. He received gifts of clothes and money for going to the man’s apartment. While there, he would drink beer, smoke pot, and watch stag movies.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E53

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E53 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   A prosecution witness, a seventeen year old, testiļ¬ed to being introduced into homosexual acts by the ļ¬rst witness, who had told the boys they could make all the money they wanted. “All we had to do was lay there and let them do what they wanted to us,” he said.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E52

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E52 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Newspapers reported that another prosecution witness, an assistant head- master at a private boys’ school, admitted visiting the apartment more than forty to ļ¬fty times over a ļ¬ve-year period. He denied being a partner in a scheme to provide boys for hire but admitted to taking friends to the apartment with him and paying for having sex with the boys

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E51

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E51 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   He testiļ¬ed that he could be considered a “master male pimp” and that he became involved in the sex-for-hire operation after meeting one of the other defendants. He said that initially no money was involved, but after a few months, expenses increased so the men were charged and the boys were given ļ¬ve to ten dollars for sexual services.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E50

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E50 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   According to news reports, the ļ¬rst witness, a man who was serving a ļ¬fteen- to twenty-ļ¬ve-year term after pleading guilty to charges derived from the child solo ring, admitted to having sexual relations with boys as young as ten during the thirteen years he had rented the apartment.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E49

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E49 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   By December 1978 the trial of the ļ¬rst defendant, a physician, began. Testimony from four prosecution witnesses revealed the linkages between the two types of rings.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E48

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E48 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   From this testimony, additional men (many with professional and business credentials) were indicted on counts of rape and abuse of a child, indecent assault, sodomy, and unnatural acts.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E47

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E47 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   In the apartment of a man who had an extensive history of convictions for child molesting, investigators found numerous photos of naked youths as well as pornographic ļ¬lms. Sixty-three of the depicted youths were located and interviewed, and thirteen agreed to testify before a grand jury.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E46

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E46 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N CASE STUDY: 317.02: TRANSITIONAL CHILD SEX RING Background and Victimology From December 1977 to December 1978, Boston was in the spotlight regarding a male youth prostitution ring. Earlier that year, the investigation of a solo child sex ring had led an assistant district attorney and police to un- cover a second generation of rings.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E45

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E45 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   The investigator should be sensitive to props and collateral used to bribe the targeted age group. Interviews with the victims should be carefully done by an investigator trained in interviewing children.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E44

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E44 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Investigative Considerations. The investigator should obtain a search war- rant for the offenders’ residences and check telephone and ļ¬nancial records for purchases of materials needed to create the pornography.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E43

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E43 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Common Forensic Findings. The victimization is usually reported by a third party, and little, if any, forensic evidence is immediately available. To obtain forensic evidence, detailed medical and psychiatric examinations of the victims are required. In addition to the general forensic ļ¬ndings de- scribed at the start of the chapter, there could be anal or vaginal scarring or bruises.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E42

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E42 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Crime Scene Indicators Frequently Noted. The crime scene can be the of- fenders’ residence, vehicle, group meeting hall, or a hotel or motel. There are usually many locations. The pornographic material is usually hidden in the residences of the offenders. The most recent crime scene will usually have the camera needed to create the pornography as well as props, collateral material, and goods used to bribe the victims.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E41

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E41 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   It is difļ¬cult to identify clearly this type of ring because its boundaries are blurred and because the child may be propelled quite quickly into prostitution. Typically the adults in these transition rings do not sexually interact with each other, but instead have parallel sexual interests and involvements with the adolescents who exchange sex with adults for money as well as for attention or material goods.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E40

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E40 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   They may be incest victims who have run away from home and need a peer group for identity and economic support. They may be abused children who come from disorganized families in which parental bonding has been absent and multiple neglect and abuse are present. They may be missing children who have been abducted or kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E39

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Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E39 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   They may be initiated into solo sex rings by pedophiles who lose sexual interest in the child as he or she approaches puberty and who may try, through an underground network, to move the vulnerable child into sexual activity with pederasts (those with sexual preferences for pubes- cent youths).

Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E38

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  Crime Classification Manual Part II Chapter 8 E38 A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES SECOND EDITIO N   Deļ¬ning Characteristics Victimology. In the transitional sex ring, multiple adults are involved sexually with children, and the victims are usually pubescent. The children are tested for their role as prostitutes and thus are at high risk for advancing to the syndicated level of ring, although the organizational aspects of the syndicated ring are absent in transitional rings. It is speculated that children enter these transitional rings by several routes: