Risk Assessment of Men Who Have Committed Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Material Offenses

In this session Michael Seto (PhD) will provide an overview of key research and clinical findings about men who commit child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offenses including the factors associated with the likelihood they will sexually offend again, including escalation to contact sexual offenses. He will also briefly review the development and validation of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) and the recent revisions leading to the CPORT-R. Implications for risk assessment and management will be discussed.

Pricing = $65 NZPsS Members, $80 Non-members, $25 NZPsS Students. 

Presented by Michael Seto:

Michael is the Forensic Research Director at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Mental Health Research at The Royal, and a Full Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa. He is also cross-appointed to the University of Toronto and to Carleton University. 

He has published extensively on pedophilia, sexual offending against children, online sexual offending, and forensic mental health and frequently present on these topics at scientific meetings and professional workshops. His research has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Correctional Services Canada, Mental Health Commission of Canada, Thorn Foundation, Tiny Foundation, and Oak Foundation.

Michael has appeared in many media outlets to talk about these topics, including CBC Radio, CBC Newsworld, CTV, Global Television, TVO, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, The Atlantic, Maclean's, and the BBC.

He has also provided training or consultation to the Ontario Provincial Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US, Thorn Foundation, Meta, Google, Apple, and TikTok.

He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Abuse (2015-2023) and the incoming Editor-in-Chief for Archives of Sexual Behavior. He is also on the editorial boards of Journal of Sex Research, Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, Law and Human Behavior, Psychological Assessment, and Journal of Online Trust and Safety.

Learn more about Michael's research at his ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Seto

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=359wSlQAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1212-3388