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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Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Colburn, D., & Mitchell, K. J. (2024). Persisting concerns about image exposure among survivors of image-based sexual e...
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Jones, L. M., O’Brien, J. E., Colburn, D., McKinney, K., & Martin, L. (2024). Youth Attitudes Toward Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Help-Seeki...
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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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