Community College of Baltimore County ​

Course Description:
This comprehensive specialist interviewing course has been specifically designed using videos and in depth case studies to enhance the skills and knowledge of professionals who interview sex offenders of children in the course of law enforcement investigations, child protection evaluations and risk assessment and/or management of sexual offenders.

 

For the first time, professionals working in these challenging environments can undertake a program of study that will introduce participants to a tried and tested methodology for developing, preparing and implementing effective interview strategies with perpetrators of child sexual abuse in both online and 
offline environments. 

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Objectives: 
• Demonstrate through the use of case studies the spectrum of sex offender behavior
• Explain the spiral conceptual framework for understanding offender behavior
• Illustrate the components of Identified Suspect Profiling (ISP) 
• Teach participants the use of the Sullivan Behavior Analysis Tool (S-BAT) a framework for analyzing
and scoring personality and behavior
• Demonstrate how the ISP can be integrated into the investigative process
• Teaches a theoretical perspective for understanding offender behavior derived from research and clinical 
experience.
•Exposes participants to multiple case studies covering a broad cross-section of offenders and cases. 
• These illustrate the key differences and similarities between offenders and cases 
• Highlights the ‘golden nuggets’ of learning pointing you towards the areas to explore in an interview and those best ignored.

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Topics covered in this course include;  Behavior analysis | The Spiral of Sexual Abuse | Understanding offender behavior | Manipulation styles | Masks | Life history timelines | Personality profiles | Projected Personality Matrix | Incorporating profiles into investigations | Suspect interview checklist | Interview plan

Course Description:

This course explores the use of polygraph and new integrity screening devices to enhance interviews and risk assessment of sex offenders. Grounded in practical application for frontline safeguarding, this course trains participants how to acquire and analyze the relevant information and then how to accurately report the risk.

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Objectives:

• Explore the use of truth detection technologies in interviews and risk assessments of alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse

• Illustrate the benefits and limitations of actuarial and dynamic risk assessment tools

• Provide participants with a protocol for interviews which use integrity screening and polygraph technologies

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Topics covered in the course include:  What is risk? | How to recognize risky behaviors and what to do next | Overview of static and dynamic risk factors | Critical facts about risk assessment | Specialist risk assessment tolls to take away and how to use them | Interview protocol for identifying risk factors | Clinical risk assessment skills | Use of polygraph and Integrity Screening tools | Interviewing alleged sex offenders incorporating the VAST integrity screen

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Course Description:

This course teaches participants to understand the potential applications of behavior analysis in working with offenders who use technology to facilitate offending. It also identifies the key issues in 'image based' child exploitation. Participants will also use behavior analysis tools in analyzing evidence in child sexual exploitation cases as well as identify the key risk factors in cases involving indecent images of children. In addition, how women use technology and the internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children will also be discussed along with ‘chat-based child exploitation and online grooming behaviors.

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Objectives:

• Contextualize offender behavior with an outline of the nature of technologically facilitated offending

• Identify the potential applications of behavioral analysis in working with offenders who use technology to facilitate offending

• Introduce the Digital Content Analysis tool

• Identify the key issues in ‘image-based child sexual exploitation

• Use behavioral analysis tools in analyzing evidence in child sexual exploitation cases

• Identify the key risk factors in cases involving indecent images of children

• Understand how women use technology and internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children

• Recognize ‘chat based’ child exploitation and online grooming behaviors

• Illustrate key points using case studies covering the spectrum of male and female online sexual exploitation of children

• Highlight the importance of networking and the functioning of organized groups

 

Topics covered in this course include: To give participants an insight into offenders’ use of technology and the Internet in the facilitation of child sexual exploitation | Identifying different types of online offending | Online grooming behaviors used by sex offenders | Identify new technologies used by sex offenders to target and identify potential victim

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Course Description:

This advanced comprehensive specialist interviewing course has been specifically 
designed examining the use of projected personality profiling in creating customized interviews. The course 
will explore the use of incremental questions in customized interview strategy, introduce the concept of 
incremental questions and provide opportunities to build upon the experience of using s-bat tools. 
 

You must have completed Basic Sex Offender Specialist Interview Course to qualify.

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Objectives:
• Review of S‐BAT templates and using those tools in police investigations 
• Development of Case Hypothesis and Interview Protocols 
• Learn Complex interview strategies
• Learn and practice the use of Incremental questions through use of role play and case studies 
• Practice interview preparation and question construction 
• Analyzing student case studies from investigations 

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Topics covered in this course include; Review of S-BAT templates | Hypothesis development | Creating complex interview strategies | Incremental questions | Question construction | Application of the approach to participant’s own case studies 

Course Description:

This presentation will explore the types of people, who are authority figures, who represent a risk of sexual harm to children in schools and institutions. Using video of offenders who have perpetrated sexual crimes against children in schools the presenter will highlight the behaviors which offenders use to disguise their intentions from others and manipulate the children they intend to victimize. Training is open to school personnel, school resource officers, law enforcement, child protective services, and prosecuting attorneys.

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Objectives:

• Identify indicators that sexual harm is occurring, has occurred or is being prepared for.

• Explore the psychology of child sex offenders who work in child serving settings

• Provide participants with a practical framework for recognizing and correctly interpreting offender behavior.

 

Topics covered in this course include: Prevalence of sexual abuse | Motivation to sexually offend | Intro to behavior analysis | Inhibitors to offending | Understanding offender behavior | Role of fantasy in offending | Grooming by authority figures | Sexual exploitation of children | Female sex offenders | Technology facilitated offenders | Traveling sex offenders | Organized groups of sex offenders | Partners of sex offenders | Introduction to interviewing sex offenders | Sex offenders who use technology and the internet to facilitate the sexual exploitation of children | Victim issues

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