Analysis Of Stopping the perpetuation of the affluent class and

Analysis Of Stopping the perpetuation of the affluent class and their sexual criminal psychological

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Abstract Within the study, one will find a simple, understandable methodology. This study is comprised of the -haves' and the -have-nots'. The elite class is essentially the body of people that are classified as the -haves'. The non-elite classes are classified as the -have-nots'. Furthermore, the research will look at the criminal justice system as a whole touching on a variety of topics -- one of the important point(s) is the topic of Internet child pornography. The researcher has discovered that the elite and/or affluent class are not people of a certain racial group, but are people that do not suffer the full punishment of the law, unlike their counterparts -- the non-elite class. These people are punished without waiver. Travesty: being a harsher punishment and non-travesty: being a lesser punishment, i.e., if one was of the elite class, one receives lesser punishment than if one were a person of a non-elite class. Also, within this research, one sees the perpetuation of a cycle from childhood on to adulthood becoming a sexual predator for Internet child pornography. This research looks at ways to stop the perpetuation of the cycle

Introduction Within the world of criminal research, most people don't understand the different complexities of the law. For the ordinary person, the law may seem to be very lenient just because one happens to be affluent. In essence, one has money. In the population of San Francisco, there exists both the elite/affluent class and the poor under-privileged class. According to Kaulfin (1999), California has the highest sex offender rate, followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Florida. Both classes have compromising individuals that commit offenses, which are classified by the government as crimes. The crimes that these individuals commit, in a city are recorded by their individual state, and are kept as statistics. The previous statement may seem to be somewhat of a tilt of how the US legal system works. It is the hope of the researcher to find out if one would be 100% correct. The legal system may, unfortunately, work for people with resources to afford a proper defense. However, if one is a person without those resources, one is stuck with the everyday run-of-the-mill kangaroo court --where the outcome has been predicted based upon one's social economic status. This is surely not justice. Unfortunately, the United States is full of these types of blunders.

Within the United States today, a great many affluent people are not being prosecuted. White collar crime, according to Johnston (2002), comes in many different forms; one of the most heinous forms of white collar crime is Internet child pornography. As a researcher, one cannot help but wonder what is going on when according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), child pornography (CP) reports increased 39% in 2004. Ernie Allen, the president and CEO of NCMEC, stated that statistics show a significant and steady increase in CP for its seventh year. More than 20,000 images of CP are posted on the Internet every week (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 2003). In 2009, a United Nations report by UNICEF estimated that there are more than four million web sites featuring minors, including those of children aged less than two years old, and it was said in this report, that more than 200 new images are circulated daily. Since 1939, white collar crime has become synonymous with the full range of criminal deviant acts. Within this research project, one will find an emic perspective (See appendix A) of elite class condoning childhood pornography. For the last eleven years, it has been a perspective that most elite people have been getting away with social injustice crime(s) simply because they have money. Analysis of the perspectives of how and why this is so promises to answer why some people are not held accountable for their actions, such as, child pornography cases. Sigmund Freud discovered child pornography in the early 1800s. CP was not the politically correct term within this time period the politically correct term was childhood sexual traumas (CST). Within the 19th century, Sigmund Freud developed a seduction theory. (See appendix C). Background of the problem -Kiddie porn' also known as child pornography, has been around for decades, often undetected by American citizens, because in the 18th and 19th century(s) it was perfectly acceptable. It was not until Sigmund Freud discovered the seduction theory, later defined as childhood sexual trauma, did the issue become a problem. (Westerlund, 1989).CP is currently defined under federal law (18 U.S.C. 2256), as -any visual deception, including any photograph, film, video, picture, or computer or computer generated image or picture, whether made or produced by electronic, mechanical, or other means, of sexually explicit conduct: The production of the visual depiction involves the use of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; or The visual depiction is a digital image, computer image, or computer generated image that is , or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct- (MCEC, 2003). According to the Department of Justice, child pornography has been in the United States since the mid 1980s. Since the 1980s, technology has changed the situation. The Internet allows images and digitized movies to be reproduced and disseminated to tens of thousands of individual(s) at the click of a button. As a result child pornography is readily available through virtually every Internet technology (i.e. websites, emails, instant messaging, ICQ, Internet relay Chat (IRC), newsgroups bulletin boards, and peer to peer). Since the 1980s, child pornography exploded within the United States, and has been publicized more and more recently, resulting from more websites and web pages exploiting children. Furthermore, according to the Department of Justice (2003), the overwhelmingly homogeneous environment that is predators towards children are pornography happened to be white middle-aged European/American. Christine Courtois (1996) alludes to European white middle aged men being predators of child pornography. These people represent the most predominant offenders within the 21 century of Internet pornography. According to a study by Courtois (1996), there were 525 offenders, or 35 percent of the offenses, were child molestations, there were 358 offenders, or 24 percent of the offenses, were rapes, there were 617 offenders, or 41 percent of the offenses, were sexual homicides and serial murders (Courtois, 1996) The affluent class has certain privileges that most common folk do not receive. Child pornography is one of the most heinous crimes within the 21 century. Exploring this crime will lend credence to understanding the social economic structure of what privilege brings to those who have it. And on the opposite side, what happens to those who lack an elite-ness within society. Recently, the media has informed the public about the risks of child victimization, and the ever increasing problem of crimes against children through cyberspace. Nearly a decade and a half after the introduction to child pornography, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) (1998) labeled online sexual crimes directed toward children as Internet crimes against children (ICAC) and developed task forces in every state to address the problem. A study published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (2003) indicated that 1,713, people were arrested for the possession of child pornography within a one year period. The possessors ran the gamut in terms of income, education level, material status, and age. Virtually all of those who were arrested were men, (91%) were white, and most were unmarried at the time of their crime, either because they had never married (41%) or because they were separated, divorced, or (21%) widowed, (40%) of those arrested were -dual offenders- who sexually victimized children and possessed child pornography, with both crimes discovered in the same investigation. (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2003). Within this research project, all the possibilities of how to implement preventive measures for stopping Internet child pornography will be considered. Through this medium, society will become educated on prevention efforts that can take place on the Internet; thereby stopping the perpetuation of the sexual psychological cycle of Internet child pornography. Child pornography is also linked to sexual tourism and trafficking where seizures of child pornography have confirmed the children's accounts of being abused in such circumstances. Many of the detected sex tourism cases include seizures of child pornography. Digital cameras and video cam recorders have made life easier for abusers who wish to make a record of their criminal behavior for private entertainment or commercial gain. "Some of these Russian sites make $30.00 a month. In the distorted Russian economy, just one month is enough to survive on for years" (Red Herring Magazine, January 2002). These records of crime can be used for the abusers' own gratification, or can be exchanged with other sexual abusers as means of gaining acceptance in child sexual abuse networks. (Save the Children, 2003). Child pornography can also be used as a commercial commodity to be sold to other sex offenders. This often compulsive collecting behavior usually means that there is evidence that law enforcement agencies can use in a court of law against the perpetrator, which strengthens the child's chances of obtaining justice and protection. (Save the Children, 2003). The use of Internet chat rooms gives sexual abusers the opportunity to come into contact with children without the abusers having to reveal their identity to the child. This allows abusers to groom children in such a way that leaves them open to actual abuse, or engage them in an online abusive relationship. Research by the University of New Hampshire (2005) found that one in five children between the ages of 10 and 17 received a sexual solicitation over the Internet in the last year. One in thirty-three received an aggressive solicitation - someone who asked to meet them, called them on the telephone, or sent them regular mail, money, or gifts. Within this research project, one will find a perspective of the elite class condoning childhood pornography. Within the literature review, it has been found that when a child is sexually abused either by pornography, molestation, or solicitation and it is not treated by counseling or any outside help, the child will grow up to perpetuate the cycle of child pornography. According to a case in Gainesville, Florida a former broadcaster by the name of Babik, 50, knowingly offered pornography files for distribution 326 times from his home computer between June 2008 and November 2009. Babik pled guilty to one count of child pornography with a mandatory minimum sentence of one to five years and a maximum of twenty years. Babik is out on bail. In other news Torres 47, has been charged with felonies of distribution and possession of images depicting sexual conduct of people under 18. Torres, is currently being held in jail in lieu of bail of 80,000 dollars (Harris, 2010). The researcher has chosen to use the above examples as further examples to show how much disparity is used when dealing with cases of the affluent males versus the destitute males. The researcher found the elite class are people who are able to pay for there counsel. Pre dominantly research has shown that there is a greater chance that the destitute males would have had better counsel their sentence for the same crimes as the affluent class males would have been different if the destitute class was able to afford better counsel.


Statement of the problem

Exploitation of the child has been in existence since the 19th century. Within the 19th century, it was described as masturbation of adolescent girls or child sexual trauma's (CST). The "problem" of masturbation, in particular as practiced by unmarried women, caused considerable concern amongst 19th century European (male) medical establishments (Showalter, 1987). Freud was no exception to the prevailing orthodoxy and believed, along with most of his contemporaries, that all sexual practices which did not have as their primary goal (hetero) sexual intercourse for the purposes of procreation had to be considered sexually abusive. Masturbation, coitus interruptus (See appendix A), even intercourse with the use of condoms were all considered forms of sexual abuse. By early 1893, Freud was persuaded that frequent masturbation, especially amongst adolescent girls and unmarried women, had to be considered a sexual trauma, and therefore a specific cause of [anxiety] neurosis. Later, he shifted his position even further, speculating, albeit still in private, that it should be possible "to tie anxiety not to a psychic but to a physical consequence of sexual abuse." With this in mind, Freud now struggled to explain how the physical "element of sexual life [could engender] anxiety" (Kuhn, 1997). In looking at Kuhn in this time period, the Internet was not a serious viable source for child pornography. However moving into the 21st century, CP is more commonly known as Internet child pornography. The Internet virtually allows everyone to become whom-ever they need and/or want to be, because of the anonymous connecting with a person within the cyber world, instead of face to face commentary. The Internet has unlocked doors that were closed before to both regular individuals and criminals alike According to an article published by the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (2006), the internet is unlike most environments local police departments have handled, because local citizens can access child pornography images that were produced and/or stored in another city or even continent (Smallbone. Wortley, 2006). For example, in a case in Salt Lake City, a former pastor Blanscent, 67, exposed himself over the Internet to someone who he believed to be a 13 year old girl. Blanscent pled guilty to two counts of dealing harmful materials to a minor -- a third-degree felony. Blanscet was sentenced to zero to five years in prison but the judge suspended the prison time and ordered Blanscet to serve 90 days in jail followed by three years of probation. The judge also ordered him to not use the Internet -- for any reason. After Blanscent's plea of guilty to the two counts of child porn, he resigned from being pastor at the church and had his license revoked, a week after this Blanscent was charged for the second time with four counts of dealing harmful materials to a minor (Morgan, 2007). The question in this case is: does the judge who tried the initial case feel like he did his job? With Blanscent recidivating within a week of his ruling, this case shows an example of the affluent class receive a slap on the wrist for very offensive crimes as oppose to the destitute class. Another example of Internet child exploitation is the case of a Louisa's county man by the name of Shaffer 22, was indicted on 20 counts of possession of child pornography. If Shaffer is convicted of this crime he faces up to 100 years in prison (Smith, May 6th). According to the research Mr. Shaffer represents the non -elite class males that are unable to obtain proper counsel, for a proper defense. Within the research it was discovered that Mr. Shaffer had a public defender. Furthermore, child exploitation has always been a very heinous and despicable crime, but since the involvement of the Internet, this crime is able to reach a new era of despicability. Since internet child pornography is still fairly new, the government is having a considerable amount of difficulty trying to set limitations on what is legal for an adult when it comes to children, and what is not when it involves pornographic style pictures and images involving children in questionable poses. For example, a question regarding images of high-tech computer imagery, with no child involved would it still be considered child pornography? Congress answered yes, according to a 1996 legislation criminalizing computer- image -virtual- child pornography (Slade, 2001). Again, the problem at large is children being sexually victimized and exploited rather on the Internet by adults, or in images of children that have been altered by technology. Theoretical Frame Work A major problem in the sexual offending area is the absence of an integrated approach to theory building. The lack of a framework to guide empirical and theoretical research has resulted in the ad hoc proliferation of theories that often overlap, and essentially neglect each others' existence (The Construction and Development of Theory in the Sexual Offending Area: A met theoretical Framework, 2004 ). The criminal researchers of the 21 century have a good understanding of the maladaptive beliefs and distorted thinking in facilitating or justifying sexual offenses. Within the affluent class there have been a number of attempts to describe the nature of these beliefs and to develop ways of measuring them, but in the absence of any integrating theory. This researcher believes that an understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the initiation, maintenance, and justification of sexual offending is a vital prerequisite to the development of successful understanding the affluent class. -In looking at, Social cognition and sexual offending: A theoretical framework - The present paper proposes the use of a social cognition framework in considering cognitive processes that may be important contributing factors in the propensity of some men to commit sexual offenses. Pertinent research in the social cognition domain, covering information processing, mental control, and the impact of affective and motivational factors on cognitive processes, is described and related to the sexual offending literature (Social cognition and sexual offending- : A theoretical framework 2005) Purpose of the study The arrival of the Internet has facilitated the production and distribution of indecent images of children on an enormous scale, in a short space of time and at almost no cost. The repercussions of this phenomenon on children are serious and long-term. In the past few years, several debates have been put forward when discussing the most appropriate definition or terminology to adopt for child pornography without minimizing its seriousness and criminal nature. The police use the phrase -indecent images of children' to ensure that the matter is not glamorized or confused with other forms of legal adult pornography (Martellozzo, E., & Taylor, H. 2009). Key to understanding the impact of this study is the awareness that each child is repeatedly victimized every time an image is downloaded and distributed. Once those images are on the internet, they are there forever. It is impossible to trace and remove every incident. Despite the best efforts of the police, other law enforcement agencies, and internet watch organizations worldwide, each confiscation is a mere drop in the cyber-ocean. The victims have to live with the fact that any person who chooses to view indecent images of children can easily do so, and that may well mean footage of their own torment. The case of R. v. Beattie (1992) highlighted this issue when the judge ruled that a child who knew that their abuse had been photographed or filmed would surely suffer serious psychological harm. The harm caused was taken into account when sentencing Beattie- (Martellozzo, E., & Taylor, H. 2009). Limitations This study will be exclusively related to the affluent population who are males predominately between the ages of 18 and 75 years of age. The terminology -affluent' or -elite', for the purposes of this study mean these males are well known within their community, by their social status as it pertains to their employment position. When the researcher uses the terminology non - elite class within the research project the researcher is referring to the social class and employment position of the non elite and affluent class males. The affluent class males that this study will be examining will be from diverse backgrounds. Time and space constraints do not allow for a collective study of all of the affluent population. Hence, this study relates to the affluent class population within specialized geographical areas. The information gathered by the researcher is exclusive to the affluent class population that specifically commits internet child pornography crimes. The researcher will be collecting semi personal information through mixed methods to establish reliability and validity. Organization of the study In this study, the researcher will examine the status of the affluent class males against the status of the non - elite class; this will be observed to identify how different each class is dealt with in reference to internet child pornography cases. HYPOTHESIS There is no difference in the legal: The null hypothesis; consequences for internet child pornography crimes between the affluent and the disadvantaged; AND: The alternative hypothesis; there is a difference in the legal consequences for internet child pornography crimes between the affluent and the disadvantaged. Although the most frequently reported problems by CSA victims are depression, anxiety, and other internalizing disorders, as well as externalizing problems such as dissociation, conduct disorders, aggressiveness, and inappropriate or early sexual behavior and activity, specifically sexual maladjustment, interpersonal problems, educational difficulties, acute anxiety neuroses, self destructive acts, somatic symptoms, loss of self esteem, prostitution and delinquent criminal behavior, depression, and actual or attempted suicide are some of the difficulties reported by CSA victims (Bagely, 1991). According to another CSA report on lifetime psychopathology( 2001) those reporting a history of CSA had a significantly higher lifetime rate of anxiety disorders, alcohol abuse/dependence, and antisocial behavior and were more likely to have one or more disorders then those with no such history of CSA. (MacMillan et.al.. .,(2001). METHODOLOGY The researcher will be looking at. Stopping the perpetuation of the affluent class and their sexual criminal psychological cycle of Internet child pornography. This case series study will be the frameworks to collect and analyze the data examine the psyche of the offender(s) that victimizes and sexually exploits children. This study will establish the different situations that children have to face when victimized by pedophiles over the Internet. This chapter is divided into four different sections: (1) Research Design, (2) Procedure, (3) Participants, and (4) Data Analysis. RESEARCH DESIGN Within this study there will be a sample of 100 people. This will be a descriptive study. Pre-dominantly researching the effects of the sexual offenders within the 21 century. Within the study the researcher will primarily be doing a meta-analysis of all research. Specifically finding secondary information. (See appendix on meta analysis)

PARTICIPANTS The participants will be multicultural men and women ranging from the age of 18-65. The specifics of this class of people will be from the criminal systems that have been brought up on charges for Internet child pornography. The researcher will look at (1) The social economic status of this person to find out if they happen to be a person of considerable wealth. The way the researcher will determine the social economic status will be through the individual's employment status. (2) The representation of the person within the criminal system, essentially looking at their legal representative for a cost factor. The cost factor is essential because most attorneys are extremely expensive. For the purposes of this study the researcher will only research cases that are paid for by the individual's that are involved in the case as they defendant themselves. Furthermore, according to the freedom of information act the researcher is entitled to obtain information that is crucial to proving the overall hypothesis. Procedure Researcher will be primarily researching an affluent population within the legal system. This will be a mixed methods Meta analysis study. The researcher will gather information for this research project through online documents, US Bureau of Statistics, Department of Justice (DOJ), Child Abuse Research and Statistics. According to the Meta Analysis it is unclear to the researcher rather or not the person is able to pay for their defense. However, due to the simple fact they are not paying for their defense they are automatically placed in the non- elite class. According to a meta analysis report of published research on the effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) there are six possible outcomes for long and short term effects: posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, suicide, sexual promiscuity, victim - perpetrator cycle, and poor academic performance. At the time of publication thirty seven studies were published between 1981 and 1995 involving 25,367 people. CSA was reportedly to affect anywhere between four and fifty percent of children and adolescents.

DATA ANALYSIS Within the research for qualitative research the researcher will be producing coding. Moreover for quantitative research the researcher will be producing one way ANOVAs (See appendix A). In order to gain a fair outcome for the research project. The support gathered in this research project will support the claim that the have's verses the have- not's receive minimum sentencing opposed to the mandatory sentencing the lower class individuals receive. Subsequently, the reasoning behind this phenomenon is due to the lack of prosecuted cases, in a severe manner on child pornography cases and internet child pornography cases. The data will be collected from the San Francisco area, specifically found in the US Bureau of Statistics. It is the researchers hope that the research will prove the overall hypothesis that there is a disparity within the have and have-nots of the 21 century. It is imperative to bring this disparaging problem to light due to the perpetuation of the cycle for Internet child pornography. There is simply no excuse for the perpetuation of the cycle to exist past the 21 century. It is the researchers hope that the data collected from statistical violation will show how this problem may be rectified the sample population will be inclusive from the age of 18 to the age of 65 predominantly looking at the male population. Although this is not an exclusive sample it is statistically known that the sex offenders for the 21 century for Internet pornography are more male in origin than female. For the purpose of this paper the researcher will definitely explore both genders without hesitation.

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