James McLaughlin currently serves as a detective with the City of Keene Police Department in New Hampshire where he specializes in crimes against children. He has organized an undercover Internet operation that has resulted in over 235 arrests in 42 states and in fifteen foreign countries.
James has earned a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Keene State College, a Certificate degree in Child Abuse Intervention from the University of Alabama and a Masters degree in Criminal Justice from Fitchburg State College.
In 1989, James was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to be a member of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Child Abuse and continues to be a member of this committee which has sponsored legislative changes and established state policies in investigation child abuse cases.
James has participated in more than 1000 investigations involving sexual assault, exploitation of children, and other sex crimes and has interviewed more than 2,000 victims of child sexual assault and exploitation.
In addition to facilitating seminars on interviewing children, child sexual abuse and exploitation, James has written the following articles:
- Law Enforcement Questioning Suspected Child Molesters/1994
- Relationship between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Sexual Offending in Adulthood/1994
- Seduction of Male Victims of Child Sexual Abuse by Fixated Child Molesters/1995
- Case Analysis of an Atypical Juvenile Sex Offender/1995
- A Review of the Literature Assessing Disclosures of Child Sexual Abuse/1996
- Female Sex Offenders/1997
- Technophilia: A Modern Day Paraphilia/1998
- Cyber Child Sex Offender Typology/2000
Det. McLaughlin is a recipient of the Congressional Law Enforcement award for dedication and service for my work investigating sex crimes on the Internet.