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Caught in the web : inside the police hunt to rescue children from online predators / Julian Sher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sher, Julian, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child pornography--United States.
- Child pornography.
- Children--Crimes against.
- Internet pornography.
- United States.
- Child pornography--United States--Prevention.
- Internet pornography--United States.
- Children--Crimes against--United States--Prevention.
- Children.
- Child sexual abuse--United States--Prevention.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Internet and children--United States.
- Internet and children.
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Carroll and Graf edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007.
- Summary:
- Documents the prevalence of child pornography on the Internet, revealing how the industry thrives and makes large profits while being effectively hidden by new technologies, in an account that also traces law enforcement efforts to halt the practice.
- Contents:
- "Hear the Children Cry"
- The wild, wild Web
- Saving Jessica
- The "spiral of abuse"
- Buried in a landslide
- Dear Mr. Gates...
- A new focus
- A picture is worth a thousand clues
- Online undercover
- CSI: porn
- Choices and consequences
- Wanted: "John Doe"
- Predators, Inc.
- Follow the money
- Tourists on the prowl
- Web of laws
- New frontiers
- Tech wars
- Taking down the Wickermen
- Virtual global cops
- Empower the children
- "Who saves one child saves the entire world"
- Web resources for safer surfing
- Cast of characters
- Chronology of major investigations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786718887
- 0786718889
- OCLC:
- 84840761
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