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MSB Kolloquium

02.05.2022 | 18.00 – 19.30 Uhr
Psychology for Law Enforcement Intervention

Presenter: Colm Gannon, Managing Director of Pathfinder Labs

Psychology for Law Enforcement – Intervention. The online environment for potential, onset, and established criminal offending has become complex. For Law Enforcement tasked with combatting online harm, investigative cases have increased exponentially. Recent figures released by the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) show that for the year 2020, the centre dealt with over 21.7 million reports on their Cyber Tip Line. The Europol Internet Organised Crime Threat assessment has identified that harmful online content is growing and that “the increasing normalisation of sexual behaviour online is changing younger people’s attitude to sharing explicit content with each”. In this presentation, Mr GANNON will focus on using an integrated approach through the use of deterrence messaging, pathways to intervention and enforcement. These approaches require a firm understanding of human behaviours, legal outcomes and creating a safe, productive and positive communal online society

Biography

Colm Gannon is the Managing Director of Pathfinder Labs, a technology company based in New Zealand. With his 20-years of experience in Law Enforcement in Ireland (An Garda Siochana) and New Zealand, Mr GANNON has delivered training on the Europol Combatting Online Sexual Exploitation of Children (COSEC). He has been involved in National and International operations. Pathfinder Labs works with government, non-governmental organisations, academic partners, and private industry to combat online harm to create a safer online and offline society. Mr GANNON is currently working on several social interventions that address harmful or problematic behaviours, using nudge theory to present a clear pathway to therapeutic services. The ambition is to reduce harmful online behaviour for onset offenders, thereby facilitating a focus justice base intervention.


27.06.2022 | 18.00 – 19.30 Uhr
Die Arbeit des Dezernates Sexualdelikte im LKA Berlin

Presenter: Norma Schürmann, Leiterin Dezernat Sexualdelikte im Landeskriminalamt Berlin

In diesem Vortrag gibt Frau Schürmann einen Überblick über die Arbeit des Dezernates Sexualdelikte im LKA Berlin. Neben einer statistischen Einordnung der verschiedenen Sexualstraftaten in Berlin sowie der Entwicklung in den vergangenen Jahren, wird sie auch auf die Rahmenbedingungen bei den Ermittlungen eingehen. Einen Schwerpunkt wird sie beim Deliktsbereich des dokumentierten sexuellen Missbrauchs von Kindern sowie bei Verbreitung und Besitz von Kinderpornografie setzen. Die Hinweisgewinnung aus den USA (so genannte NCMEC-Verfahren), die Bearbeitung entsprechender Verfahren in Berlin in Abgrenzung zu anderen Bundesländern sowie aktuelle Herausforderungen (insbesondere durch das stetig starke Anwachsen entsprechender Hinweise) werden ebenso thematisiert wie die Bemühungen, die Mitarbeitenden physisch und psychisch gesund zu erhalten.

Biography

Norma Schürmann ist seit 1994 Kriminalbeamtin in der Polizei Berlin. Nach verschiedenen Verwendungen im gehobenen Dienst der Kriminalpolizei begann sie 2003 ein weiterführendes Studium an der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei (inzwischen eine Masterstudiengang) und wechselte im Anschluss in den höheren Polizeivollzugsdienst. Seit 2005 nahm sie verschiedene Führungsaufgaben wahr. So leitete sie sieben Jahre lang den Stabsbereich Personalmanagement höherer Dienst im Stab des damaligen Polizeipräsidenten und war verantwortlich für Maßnahmen zur Personalsteuerung und –entwicklung der Führungskräfte des höheren Dienstes und zur Besetzung freier Stellen und Aufgabengebiete. Seit Juni 2018 leitet sie das Dezernat Sexualdelikte im Landeskriminalamt Berlin.


11.07.2022 | 18.00 – 19.30 Uhr 
Foundations for accurate skepticism in the recovered memory debateDr. Lawrence Patihis, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth
(online & on campus: Siemens Villa, Calandrellistr. 1-9, 12247 Berlin)

Presenter: Dr. Lawrence Patihis

We live in a time in which the concept of objective truth has been undermined, and a time of social fear of speaking out about iatrogenic therapies. This talk will link the general foundations needed for scientific skepticism on controversial topics--such as iatrogenic therapies--to the more specific topic of recovered memory controversy. This controversy has involved the debate over repressed memories, dissociative identity disorder, and false memories. What foundations of discourse are needed in order to facilitate skepticism and criticism of iatrogenic therapies? What academic culture will most facilitate intellectual courage and epistemic humility on controversial topics such as the harmful effects of theories within psychology that are more akin to ideology than science. Dr Patihis proposes that some theorizing about a concept called "dissociation" has been both pseudoscientific and iatrogenic from its unfortunate origins in hypnosis 150 years ago. Now, similar theories have been reinvigorated and magnified with social media bubbles--with many pseudoscientific videos achieving millions of views and persuading thousands of teens, young adults, and other adults to self diagnose as having dissociative amnesia and/or dissociative identity disorder. Certain traditions of skepticism in academia and epistemology have to be maintained and restored in order to facilitate the kind of direct and effective intellectual courage that will be needed to reduce iatrogenic harm in both theory and in practice--for example in therapies that promote traumatic memory recovery and/or multiple personalities.

Biography
Dr. Lawrence Patihis, PhD, is a British/American psychology academic at the University of Portsmouth. His interests include scientific skepticism in the traditions of the skeptic schools of ancient Greece, the Enlightenment’s rediscovery of skepticism, humanism, and Popper’s critical rationalism. Dr Patihis has generalist interests in how to distinguish objective truths and reliable theories from pseudoscience in many fields both inside and outside psychology. He has researched highly superior autobiographical memory, false memories, motivated forgetting, memories of emotion, and trauma and dissociation. He has published in prestigious journals such as The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Clinical Psychological Science, and Perspectives in Psychological Science.

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