Technology Content Topic Results
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May 2006
Social Networking Sites: Safety Tips for Tweens and Teens
Publisher(s):This document offers tips to children and teens on how to stay safe while socializing online. It also provides a list of organization where they can go to learn more about online safety.
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November 2005
The Practical Aspects of Online Counseling: Ethics, Training, Technology, and Competency
Publisher(s):This article addresses the strengths and limitations of online counseling. It also offers information on present guidelines for when and who online counseling may be appropriate.
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September 2005
Violence Against Children in Cyberspace
Publisher(s):This report is intended to provide a framework for promoting recognition and understanding of the real risks of violence for children and young people in cyberspace and through the use of new technologies, in particular the internet and mobile phones.
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June 2005
Assessing Organizational Readiness To Provide Online Advocacy & Services Online
Publisher(s):Discusses how organizations can prepare to advocate with and support survivors around the use of online services. Includes safety, confidentiality and capacity issues that organizations should address when considering provision of online TA or counseling.
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June 2005
A High-Tech Twist on Abuse: Technology, Intimate Partner Stalking, and Advocacy
Publisher(s):This paper highlights published literature and survivor's reports on the use of technology in intimate partner stalking. It includes safety strategies and a resource list for victim advocates.
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January 2005
2005 ACA Code of Ethics: Section A.12. Technology Applications (Page 6)
Publisher(s):The Code establishes principles that define ethical behavior and best practices for ACA members. Section A.12. offers guidelines for the use of technology applications in counseling work re: benefits, limitations, access, informed consent, and web sites.
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January 2005
Child-Pornography Possessors Arrested in Internet-Related Crimes: Findings from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study
Publisher(s):National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
"The goals of the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study were to survey law-enforcement agencies within the United States to count arrests for internet-related sex crimes committed against minors and describe the characteristics of offenders, the crimes they committed, and their victims. This report focuses on a representative national sample of arrested offenders who possessed child pornography."& The report includes major findings and conclusions from this sample as well as recommendations and resources for law-enforcement and prosecutors."
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January 2005
Digital Dangers: Information & Communication Technologies and Trafficking in Women
Publisher(s):This paper discusses the ways that the internet and other information and communication technologies aid the trafficking of women.
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October 2004
Every Step You Take, Every Move You Make, My GPS Unit Will Be Watching You
Publisher(s):This article describes several tactics employed by abusers to track victims using technology. 'Technology may be ushering in a golden age of stalking, in which predators use GPS, cellphones and other devices to track and terrorize.'
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October 2004
Online Information Brokers and Your Privacy
Publisher(s):This tip sheet includes steps to take to guard personal information from appearing in directory listings and public records. Includes a detailed listing of data vendors with complete contact information for each.
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May 2004
Voter Privacy in the Digital Age
Publisher(s):Report on a nationwide, state-by-state survey on voter registration data and the privacy implications of data-gathering and dissemination practices. Designed to inform the development of policy solutions that address voter privacy in the digital age.
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November 2003
Internet Sex Crimes Against Minors: The Response of Law Enforcement
Publisher(s):Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC)
This report synthesizes the information collected from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study and provides an overview of arrests, types of crimes, characteristics of offenders and ways that the criminal justice system is handling internet sex crimes against minors.









