To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
An urgently needed primer on how to protect kids from the increasing threat of online predators 

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline’s ongoing popular series To Catch a Predator, which has caught over two hundred potential child predators. Here, Hansen shares the true stories of families who have been targeted by predators, revealing the tactics predators use to manipulate their victims and why even cautious families can be vulnerable to their attacks. He also offers suggestions from police officers, therapists, and child predators on the best approaches for preventing these crimes. Most critically, he provides parents with concrete steps they can take to protect their kids today, including how to initiate meaningful conversations with their children. To Catch a Predator teaches parents and children what they need to know before the next predator strikes.
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To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
An urgently needed primer on how to protect kids from the increasing threat of online predators 

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline’s ongoing popular series To Catch a Predator, which has caught over two hundred potential child predators. Here, Hansen shares the true stories of families who have been targeted by predators, revealing the tactics predators use to manipulate their victims and why even cautious families can be vulnerable to their attacks. He also offers suggestions from police officers, therapists, and child predators on the best approaches for preventing these crimes. Most critically, he provides parents with concrete steps they can take to protect their kids today, including how to initiate meaningful conversations with their children. To Catch a Predator teaches parents and children what they need to know before the next predator strikes.
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To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home

To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home

by Chris Hansen
To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home

To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home

by Chris Hansen

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An urgently needed primer on how to protect kids from the increasing threat of online predators 

Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline’s ongoing popular series To Catch a Predator, which has caught over two hundred potential child predators. Here, Hansen shares the true stories of families who have been targeted by predators, revealing the tactics predators use to manipulate their victims and why even cautious families can be vulnerable to their attacks. He also offers suggestions from police officers, therapists, and child predators on the best approaches for preventing these crimes. Most critically, he provides parents with concrete steps they can take to protect their kids today, including how to initiate meaningful conversations with their children. To Catch a Predator teaches parents and children what they need to know before the next predator strikes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101213674
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/15/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 325 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Chris Hansen is a journalist and correspondent who is best known for his work on the Dateline NBC television segment "To Catch a Predator," which revolves around catching Internet sex predators using a sting operation. His newest show, Killer Instinct, is on Investigation Discovery. He lives in Connecticut.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction     1
Long Island and Virginia Investigations     11
Kacie Rene Woody     31
A Tale of Two Advocates     63
California Investigation     83
The Other Victims     93
MySpace     127
Ohio and Florida Investigations     151
Bobby Grizzard: Determined Detective     169
Treatment and Offenders     189
Georgia and Northern California Investigations     209
Keeping Kids Safe     223
Afterword     240
Acknowledgments     247

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