Webinar: Triaging Child Abuse Material cybertips for investigative prioritisation
Event Details
- Date:
- Thursday, 10 September 2020
- Time:
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Room:
- Online - Zoom
- URL:
- https://hass.uq.edu.au/cybercrime-webinar
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Miss Sophie Rutledge
- Phone:
- 61634
- Email:
- s.rutledge@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Online production and transmission of Child Abuse Material (CAM) is a complex and growing global problem. The CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) – the US centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children – distributes cyber tips about online offending to law enforcement agencies all over the world.
The exponential increase in case referrals over the last five years have compounded with the COVID-19 pandemic, creating a 318 percent increase in cyber tip reports in April 2020 compared to April 2019. The sheer volume in CAM cyber tips puts enormous pressure on both law enforcement investigators and cyber-tip triage staff, the latter making potentially life and death decisions about which cyber tips are referred for case investigative prioritisation. These triage decisions occur under multiple pressures including limited timeframes, finite investigative resources, increasing case-loads and the real life impacts on the well-being of a child victim if a case is not progressed for investigative action. Triage staff thus work under extremely intense conditions, often making investigative prioritisation decisions based on professional judgement and their individual law enforcement experience with online CAM offending.
This presentation details the outcomes of a collaborative research project undertaken in 2019-20 that focussed on the development of a new decision support tool for CAM triaging and investigative prioritisation for use by the AFP’s Child Protection Triage Unit. The Triage Referral Investigation Support Tool (TRIST) was designed to be quicker and more procedurally efficient to complete than its predecessor. The new tool also enables CAM triage staff to rapidly and objectively assess the need to progress a cyber-tip for further investigation: a critical decision that potentially impacts the safety of a child victim and the operational capacity of child protection investigation teams.
This combined academic – police practitioner team approach is a demonstration of social science in action. The fight against cybercrime offending requires more than tech-based solutions. Success or failure, in many ways, hinges on an appreciation of human factors – the bread and butter of social scientists!
Webinar details
Date: Thursday 10 September 2020
Time: 2–3pm AEST
RSVP: By Wednesday 9 September 2020
Webinar link will be emailed to you after you register.
Enquiries: engagement@hass.uq.edu.au
This webinar is organised by the School of Social Science and the Institute for Social Science Research, as part of Social Sciences Week.
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