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New Study About Online Child Predators

By Corey Rayburnyung

A new study from the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center (available here) reports a tremendous increase in online child predator arrests from sting operations, despite an overall decline in sex crimes against minors. From Ars Technica:Even as sex crimes against minors decline, a new report from the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center released this week found an massive increase in the number of online child predators arrested in undercover sting operations. Despite this, the survey rejects the idea that the Internet is an especially perilous place for minors, and finds that while the nature of online sex crimes against minors changed little between 2000 and 2006, the profile of the offenders has been shifting?and both differ markedly from the popular conception...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 02, 2009 (boomark / email).