Online Predators

Works Cited 

Marcum, Catherine D. "Interpreting The Intentions Of Internet Predators: An Examination Of 
   Online Predatory Behavior." Journal Of Child Sexual Abuse 16.4 (2007): 99-114. Academic 
   Search Complete. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.

Summarize: In the age of technology internet predators are finding new ways to prey on children in chat rooms to the point of being stalked and seduced from their own bedroom. Children are manipulated and deceived by          

predators who only want one thing, sex. Online Predators gain trust from children or adolescents by declaring love, compassion, marriage and using other various tactics to lure potential victims.

Who's at risk?

About 99% of the victims of Internet sexual abuse are between the ages 13 to 17. Online romances and friendships are established mostly by teens who feel lonely or isolated, teens who have relationship problems with their parents, trouble exploring their own sexuality and teens who have high levels of conflicts in their lives.

Why are they at risk?

Most teens who feel constant conflict in their lives construct an online  identity that allows them to portray someone they wish they were and who are targeted. Also in chat rooms these teens talk maturely about sex thinking there identities are unknown but also began to trust their online partners where they start to tell more personal information where the predator use this knowledge to their benefit since not all predators only communicate online.

Face to Face Meetings:

2,500 law enforcement agencies regarded that communications online with predators also result in face to face meetings. Victims of face to face meetings are usually raped, molested or never heard from again  and are generally between the ages 13 and 15 where 75% were females. 74% of face to face meetings usually result in a 94% chance that illegal sexual activity had taken place.

Perverted Justice 

Perverted Justice is a civilian work group that exposes adult predators searching for children in chat rooms. It was launched in July, 2002 and volunteers enter chat rooms wait for predators to approach them in conversations. The volunteers are selected, screened and trained in the steps to take.

Assessment: Catherine D. Marcum is currently a doctoral candidate and teaching associate in the Department of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has a masters of science in criminal justice. Her areas of research interest are cyber crime prevention and victimization, life course criminology, and juvenile justice issues.

Reflection:I think this is a very important  issue first because it is illegal second is that it is terrible if children and teens go through something like rape or being molested. It can change a child's life and not in a good way, it changes the way the person sees themselves and can lead to depression which can lead to suicide or even worse.

Work Cited: "Protect Children From Online Predators" Simplek12, teachertube.com 28, April. 2011.15 Feb. 2012.

Works Cited

Rubley, Seba: stain."Keep Your Kids Safe." PC Magazine 8/13/2004, Vol. 23 Issue 13 p 101-102.                      
     Academic Search Complete. Web. 15 Feb. 2012.

Summarize:. Problems could be as dangerous as encountering a predator in a chat room as common as sharing music and software illegally via peer-to-peer file-sharing services, or as simple as spending far too much time playing games and chatting with friends. 
Recent market research suggests that many parents consider online chatting more dangerous than Web surfing. Last year, Microsoft's service shut down its chat rooms in 28 countries partly because of concerns about sexual predators preying on minors. 24 percent of 550 U.S. teens surveyed said they had been contacted online by a stranger who tried to arrange an off-line meeting.
Meanwhile, the amount of time kids spend online is just as important an issue. A November study performed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that almost 70 percent of young users say they would find it "very hard to give up" the Internet.  Many parents go to sleep every night convinced that their kids are sleeping too, while some of the kidTs are actually chatting online with friends and strangers its a unsupervised environment. Parents need to protect their kids online and establish some rules on where they go and whom they talk to online.
For this story, we tested many types of parental-control tools. We reviewed seven traditional Web-filtering apps, which remain the most popular first line of defense in protecting children from accessing inappropriate content on the Web.  There are also apps that provide the most aggressive approach, letting you view the sites your kids have visited, read their instant-messaging conversations, and review information about the applications they have used.


Assessment:
Sebastain Rubley has been West Coast Editor of PC Magazine for over a decade, where he oversaw news and feature stories for the publication, and represented the brand on panels and at conferences on the West Coast. He also served as Features Editor of PC/Computing magazine, managing and promoting monthy noted technology journalists.A familiar face to leaders at technology companies, Sebastian has won numerous national journalism awards, including back-to-back Gold awards from the American Society of Business Professional Editors in 2004 and 2005 in the category of Original Web Content, and awards from the Computer Press Association. Rupley is the author of the book Portable Computing, one of the first titles ever to appear about laptop computers and mobile technology. From March 2006 until May 2010, Rupley has served as co-host alongside PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak.

Reflection: I think that parents should be monitoring what their children do on the internet to make sure that their children are safe. Using blocks and other types of filtering is a good way to protect their children from unwanted predators and also any other content that their child should not be seeing and could potentially protect them physically and mentally.