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Waag outpatient forensic centre and the Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet 107 are
currently involved in setting up a similar project in the Netherlands. 108 For this reason, in section §3.3.1.1
we will focus our attention on Stop it Now! UK & Ireland, including the numbers of reports they have
received. 109 It goes without saying that individuals in close proximity to perpetrators who notice indicators
of sexual violence against children/child pornography can pass on this information to the police.
In that regard, the police is therefore one of the authorities to which individuals can report indicators
of situations where acts may (potentially) have been committed; furthermore, the police also identify
such cases themselves. Further information relating to reports of child pornography to the police and
the identification/detection of potential cases by the police can be found in §3.4.2. However, it is often
the case that identifiers living or working in close proximity to perpetrators have a family connection or
friendship with the perpetrator, and the act of reporting him/her to the police is a major step, which may
be too difficult to take. What they can do, however, is report the information anonymously to Stichting
M. [Report Crime Anonymously] and in future they can also potentially contact the Netherlands’ version
of Stop it Now!. We will describe Stichting M. [Report Crime Anonymously] and the annual numbers of
reports that it receives in §3.3.1.2.
3.3.1.1 Stop it Now! UK & Ireland
Stop it Now! UK & Ireland 110 is one of the projects run by The Lucy Faithfull Foundation and was established
in 2002. The activities of Stop it Now! are based upon the aforementioned prevention model of
Smallbone 111 and these activities therefore focus upon the primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
of sexual violence against children, whereby the emphasis is placed upon the secondary and tertiary
prevention of the (potential) capacity to be a perpetrator. That is why we already mentioned the project
in §3.2.2. As early identification 112 by Stop it Now! is regarded as one of the most important aspects in
the prevention of first or repeated offending, we decided to discuss the project in this section instead of
in the section on after-care and monitoring of perpetrators (§3.6). For adults who are concerned about
107 The Hotline Combating <strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet is also charged with handling reports of
(potentially) abusive content involving children and handling reports from victims of online abuse via
Helpwanted.nl. It is therefore important that this new task will be undertaken strictly separately from
its other duties, in order to prevent (the appearance of ) a conflict of interests.
108 It is expected that this project will be launched in 2012. Information supplied by Hotline Combating
<strong>Child</strong> <strong>Pornography</strong> on the Internet, 17 March 2011; information supplied verbally by Stop it Now!,
working visit on 9 March 2011; Ministry of Security & Justice, First Progress Report on tackling child
pornography, 4 March 2011; ‘Toezicht nodig voor zedenplegers’ [Monitoring necessary for sex offenders],
Dagblad de Pers, 25 May 2011.
109 In applying these statistical data to the situation in the Netherlands, it should be noted that the population
of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2009 was four times as great as the population of the
Netherlands (approximately 65.5 million compared with 16.5 million). Other factors such as differences
in density of Internet use or availability (which influences online behaviour – and child pornography)
between the countries must also be taken into account (see §1.2.3).
110 See www.stopitnow.org.uk (viewed 8 September 2011).
111 See §3.2.1.
112 The identification of criminal acts that may potentially be committed in the future (sexual violence
against children – offline or online) before it has occurred (secondary prevention) or before it is repeated
(tertiary prevention).
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