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    Module Objectives:

    1. Understand cybersecurity and on-line sexual predation in reference to Facebook, Twitter, Google maps, etc.
    2. Identify types of sexual offenders on line, and not on line
    3. Understand the prevalence, incidence, and demographics of on-line sexual predators and their victims.
    4. Define pedophiles as opposed to the legal and psychiatric definitions.
    5. Identify targets: develop a profile of victims of cyber predation; those at risk of victimization and revictimization
    6. Identify suspicious computer sites, applications visited by children, adolescents, and young people
    7. Understand the myth of the classic online sexual predator (old dirty “weirdos!”) as opposed to other adolescents and seemingly normative persons
    8. Examine case studies of potential online sexual predators
    9. Examine interactional and contextual factors of on line sexual predation
    10. Develop profiles of sexual online predators
    11. Develop guardian capabilities, that is, police, parents, school officials, and young people, and computer algorithms y that will be able to harden targets and enhance situational prevention.
    12. Understand triggers and escalation in the victimization, “spin” cycle.

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