Crimes against Children Research Center
Crimes against Children Research Center (CCRC) provides high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners.
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Mitchell, KJ, O’Brien, J, Gewirtz-Meydan, A, Jones, LM, Colburn, D (2026). Mapping help needs among sexual and gender minority youth at risk for comme...
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Mitchell, K. J., O’Brien, J., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Colburn, D., & Jones, L. M. (2026). A brief screener to identify youth at risk for commercial se...
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Current Projects
The Second Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS-2) was conducted in 2005 and designed to update and expand upon the previous Youth Internet Safety Surve...
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These are two related projects. The first, the Second National Juvenile Online Victimization Study (N-JOV2) is funded by the Department of Justice, Of...
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This project aims to help reduce youth risk of victimization through technology use (i.e., Internet, text messaging, webcams). It will survey a natio...
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This study is designed to help law enforcement combat technology-facilitated child exploitation crimes. It will gather detailed national data on a num...
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Because of contextual factors such as prejudice and social isolation, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth consistently report victimi...
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