Book by Alex Renton - Perspectives wanted

[Jim Burton]

I just had a conversation with Alex Renton a journalist known for his coverage of CSA, who is completing a book on the subject. Owing to the lack of activity in the community, some perspectives are still sought to round it off.

Everything appears to check out:

1. The book will be on humane approaches to dealing with attraction to minors and offending - for example, where image-based offenses are dealt with outside the criminal system in the Netherlands.

2. It will acknowledge the existence of pro-c perspectives, but not focus on them; the author is a CSA survivor.

I think the book will go similar places to the famous/controversial, but still prevention-led books by Goode, or Walker.

I asked Alex to create an account here, and share some contact details. I think he is going to want some non-typical perspectives on things like the Dunkelfeld program. Clearly, there is some kind of impasse with prevention programs - they are politically inconvenient (because they attack stigma), which means a journalist can either get access to individuals who are religiously in favor of it, or unreasonably against. Alex wants someone with direct experience of this kind of program.

I encouraged Alex to talk to Virped and at least someone on the B4U-ACT board - with the latter being the most interesting organization to speak to as it focuses on non-offenders and was founded by egosyntonic MAPs.

[AJTR]

Thanks very much for the introduction. I have registered and I will post some questions in the hope of collecting views around various treatment and prevention programmes I have been looking at for this book. I am also interested in the policing of online and various ethical and practical problems that poses.
Alex Renton

[BLueRibbon]

Welcome.

Despite my published concerns about your podcasts, I hope we can interact positively and productively here.

I've upgraded your account, so you won't need to wait for post approval from now on.

[AJTR]

Thanks, both of you.

I've just posted one request for views on policing of online in the Research Center - I hope that's the right place.

Separately, I wanted to ask for anyone interested in sharing experiences or thoughts about Project Dunkelfeld, Stop It Now and other state-funded CBT-based programmes that are designed to support MAPs in non-offending, reduce stigmatisation - not sure where best to post that request.

A

[Jim Burton]

I think we should use this forum - where it's less likely to get diluted in the rest of the forum.

I've actually forgotten whether or not this is a forum where only staff can post, but moved the thread.

Then, we should probably publish some kind of announcement on the main site - these get amplified on BoyChat - another major webforum. I don't see a problem with getting an announcement posted on Projects About Us or Seeking Research Participants (Virped forums, registered users only). I see researchers like Allyn Walker, Kailey Roche and Rebecca Lievesley posting regularly there, and some authors who are planning books. Virped is a highly active forum.

[BLueRibbon]

I've actually forgotten whether or not this is a forum where only staff can post, but moved the thread.

Everyone can post here.