Sextortion: Cybersecurity, teenagers, and remote sexual assault
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2016
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Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings
Abstract
This paper represents an effort―to our knowledge the first―to study in depth and across jurisdictions the problems
of sextortion. In it, we look at the methods used by perpetrators and the prosecutorial tools authorities have used
to bring offenders to justice. We hope that by highlighting the scale and scope of the problem, and the brutality of
these cases for the many victims they affect, to spur a close look at both state and federal laws under which these
cases get prosecuted.
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online victimization, sextortion, internet, research
Citation
Wittes, B., Poplin, C., Jurecic, Q., & Spera, C. (2016). Sextortion: Cybersecurity, teenagers, and remote sexual assault. Washington, DC: Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings.