CO 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Silver Gavel Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award, Online Predator
Document Summary
In 2002, when cyber-predators had just began to make their debut, author brian hansen wrote the article cyber-predators to inform readers of the dangers of these new types of predators. The author of this article uses the stories of many different teens who had an encounter with an online predator. It also details a woman who aids law enforcement by going online mascarading as a teenage girl trying to catch predators. Though the article was written in 2002, the information in it is still very relevant, as are the profiles of several victims. It is also relevant to compare the prominence of cyber- predators, and the caution of teens online, the past 11 years. Measures such as these have not changed in the last 11 years, they have just improved. The author also uses statistics about the recent increase in online victims, as well as the types of online predators surfing the web.
