Online Bullying and Other Online Crimes Involving Children
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Are there better methods that we could employ to educate children about crime and the potential to be victimized? Is this an appropriate topic for school-aged children, and can we trust the schools to handle this task well?
Consider a case where a teenager is pressured or bullied over social media to the point where he or she commits suicide. In an instance such as this, should the harassers face charges? Kids have said mean things to each other throughout the years... where do we draw the lines between free speech, typical adolescent behavior, and actual harm?
Beyond the moral duty of the parent to protect the child, what legal responsibility should parents bear, if any? For instance, if a child suffers harm due to Internet interaction or social media, should the parent bear any legal blame?
Last, it is a common police tactic to pose as an underage child in online chat rooms to attract and prosecute offenders seeking sexual contact with underage victims. Is this an appropriate use of the police? Certainly, all will be in favor of removing online predators before they can do actual harm, but is it fair to prosecute someone who merely "thinks" he is committing an offense? Since the officer posing as a child is, in fact, a grown adult, is there really a crime here?
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An online educational expert addresses cyberbullying, parents' responsibilities with this, and the online luring of predators towards adult police officers posing as underage children in chat rooms for the goal of stopping, capturing, and prosecuting them.
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Are there better methods that we could employ to educate children about crime and the potential to be victimized? Is this an appropriate topic for
school-aged children, and can we trust the schools to handle this task well?
While it is hard to discuss better methods of educating kids about crime without having a given basis point. The best methods seem to be through demonstrations and examples that make it real and believable to the age of the audience. I feel cyberbullying is an appropriate topic for school aged children because children younger and younger are accessing the world-wide web.
Consider a case where a teenager is pressured or bullied over social media to the point where he or she commits suicide. In an instance such as this, should the harassers face charges? Kids have said mean things to each other throughout the years....where do we draw the lines between free speech, typical adolescent behavior, and actual harm?
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