The Internet and family and acquaintance sexual abuse
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2005
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Child Maltreatment
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This article explores the dynamics of cases involving family and acquaintance sexual offenders who used the Internet to commit sex crimes against minors. Although the stereotype of Internet crimes involves unknown adults meeting juvenile victims online, Internet use can also play a role in sexual crimes against minors by family members and acquaintances. Data were collected from a national sample of law enforcement agencies about arrests for Internet-related sex crimes against minors.
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Abuse-sexual, Family, Internet, Law enforcement, Perpetrators