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Protecting Your Children Online
What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children
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eBook - ePub
Protecting Your Children Online
What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children
About this book
As parents, our main job is to protect our children. These days, protection from includes not only the individuals we can see but, also, the individuals that we cannot see – yet who wish to harm our children. And with the growth of social networking and social media parents are often unaware of their child's interactions on the internet. Protecting Your Children Online: What You Need to Know About Online Threats to Your Children introduces the crimes that can occur in cyberspace, as well as procedures for reporting and obtaining assistance in the event of victimization.
Throughout Kimberly McCabe addresses several types of cyber crimes, ranging from child pornography and solicitation to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and sexting, giving parents the necessary information they need to protect their children in cyberspace. This book builds on the historical efforts to reduce child abuse in the United States and looks at the limitations of these efforts when attempting to address child abuse in cyberspace. By identifying these different types of cybercrimes against children, and offering the definitions of terms and law enacted to prohibit these crimes, Kimberly McCabe gives possible responses for attempting to end internet crime on a national, international, and personal level.
A definite must have for parents who want to be proactive in protecting their child in cyberspace, and those who wish to be better able to protect them from victimization.
Throughout Kimberly McCabe addresses several types of cyber crimes, ranging from child pornography and solicitation to cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and sexting, giving parents the necessary information they need to protect their children in cyberspace. This book builds on the historical efforts to reduce child abuse in the United States and looks at the limitations of these efforts when attempting to address child abuse in cyberspace. By identifying these different types of cybercrimes against children, and offering the definitions of terms and law enacted to prohibit these crimes, Kimberly McCabe gives possible responses for attempting to end internet crime on a national, international, and personal level.
A definite must have for parents who want to be proactive in protecting their child in cyberspace, and those who wish to be better able to protect them from victimization.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introducing Cyberspace and Internet Crimes against Children
- Chapter 2: Welcome to Children and Cyberspace
- Chapter 3: Enticement, Sexual Imposition, Child Solicitation, and Child Pornography
- Chapter 4: Sexting and Sextortion
- Chapter 5: Cyberbullying
- Chapter 6: Cyberstalking
- Chapter 7: Facilitating Hate and Violence
- Chapter 8: Preparing for the Worst
- Chapter 9: Warning Signs
- Chapter 10: Addressing Victimization
- Appendix: Information Sources for Reporting Internet Crimes Against Children
- Notes
- About the Author