CMRJ515 - Proposed Research Topic and Annotated Bibliography
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Challenges of Prosecuting Online Child Sexual Predators
Alexis Sutherland
American Military University
CMRJ515: Sexual Exploitation of Children
Dr. Ron Wallace
March 19, 2023
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Proposal
The topic that I wish to research is how investigators are challenged by complexities of the online world while trying to identify, locate, unlock the true identities, arrest, and successfully prosecute people who sexually exploit children or are child predators by way of the internet. This is important because there are so many barriers that must be broken and legal regulations that must be adhered to in order to not jeopardize the investigation and allow an offender to go free. By doing this research, I hope to accomplish a better understanding of the methods that investigators must utilize and the laws that must be followed in order successfully prosecute a child offender while presenting the information to others who may be interested as well.
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Annotated Bibliography
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Herward, J. A. (2014). TO CATCH ALL PREDATORS: TOWARD A UNIFORM INTERPRETATION OF "SEXUAL ACTIVITY" IN THE FEDERAL CHILD ENTICEMENT STATUTE.
American University Law Review,
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(3), 879-918. http://ezproxy.apus.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fscholarly-
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A highly detailed article that explains in depth the federal child enticement statute, codified at 18
U.S.C. § 2422 (b), which is necessary to understand in order to define what the United States defines as “sexual activity.” The article continues on to explain the issues with the current definition that the federal government uses in relation to the sentencing predators receive and how the definition of “sexual activity” should be updated.
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Urbas, G. (2010). Protecting Children From Online Predators: The Use of Covert Investigation Techniques by Law Enforcement. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 26(4), 410–425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986210377103
An article depicting the different methods that are utilized by police online in order to locate and apprehend online child predators to include online sex traffickers, child groomers, and pedophiles. The author explains why it may be necessary for the police to take on a persona of either a real or fictitious child’s persona and take over their online existence in order to bring offenders to justice and discusses which tactics are the most successful.
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Wickson, S. L. (2018).
Online Predator Travelers and Distance to Crime
(Order No. 10816735). Available from ProQuest Central; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
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A dissertation created through thorough research of the relation that distance has in accordance with child victims of online sex crimes. The author takes qualitative and quantitative data that has been gathered and draws the correspondence between how far an online child offender is willing to travel in order to follow through with the in person acts after the initial online conduct with a child victim. That information is then taken and correlated to the jurisdiction borders and how the different agencies work together to arrest and prosecute the offender.