Trends in Law Enforcement Responses toTechnology‐facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: TheThird National Juvenile OnlineVictimization Study (NJOV‐3)

Authors

Janis Wolak, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow
David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow
Kimberly J. Mitchell, University of New Hampshire - Main CampusFollow

Abstract

Abstract

Overall arrests for technology‐facilitated child sexual exploita‐ tion crimes did not continue to increase from 2006 to 2009 as they had earlier in the decade. However, arrests for child por‐ nography possession increased by about 50% from 2006 to 2009. In addition, arrests for technology‐facilitated sex crimes with identified victims doubled, but the increase was in cases where offenders knew their victims in person, not cases in which they met online. Arrests of offenders who solicited undercover police posing as minors declined between 2006 and 2009, after rising earlier in the decade. The decline may be because of shifts in law enforcement strategies that included more focus on child pornography offenses.

Department

Crimes Against Children Research Center, Psychology

Publication Date

4-2012

Publisher

Crimes against Children Research Center

Document Type

Article

Recommended Citation

Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., and Mitchell, K. (2012). Trends in Law Enforcement Responses to Technology-facilitated Child Sexual Exploitation Crimes: The Third National Juvenile Online Victimization Study (NJOV-3). Durham, NH: Crimes against Children Research Center.