Summary
The Internet's easy, anonymous contact has allowed murderers and pedophiles unprecedented access to connect with their victims and lure them away from the safety of their homes. These cyberpredators use information technology—including social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat—to attack and victimize others in a more violent, malevolent, and dangerous way than cyberbullies or cyberstalkers.
Cyberpredators, Second Edition educates teens about the dangers of interacting with strangers online and how they can protect themselves in the digital world, complete with up-to-date information on how cyberpredators operate, law enforcement efforts to counter cyberpredation, and new accounts of cases that escalated from cyberspace to the real world. This newly updated and expanded edition also discusses mobile computing and the risks it entails, such as location sharing and privacy threats.
Chapters and topics include:
- Characteristics of a cyberpredator
- How cyberpredators use technology
- Cyberpredators and social media
- Cyberpredators and the law
- Advice for young people.
About the Author(s)
Dr. James P. Colt is the Director of Safety and Security at Monroe 1 BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services) in New York. He is a former police officer employed by the State University of New York, and also served as a criminal justice instructor and school community safety specialist at Monroe 1 BOCES. He is also a certified public school teacher, and school administrator in New York State. He earned a masters degree in criminal justice from Buffalo State College, and also holds a masters degree in educational administration from St. John Fisher College. He also earned his doctorate from St. John Fisher College, with a research focus on cyberbullying and cyberoffending. He is the co-author of Cyber Bullying: Protecting Kids and Adults from Online Bullies and contributing author to Encyclopedia of CyberCrime. He is a frequent presenter and consultant on topics related to cybersafety, bullying, violence prevention and crisis intervention, and emergency preparedness.
Marcus K. Rogers, Ph.D., CISSP, CCCI, DFCP, is the executive director for cybersecurity programs in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University, a former police officer, and the editor in chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics Security and Law. He is Professor, Fellow of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), and past chair of the digital and multimedia science section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.