Safeguarding young people from cyber pornography and cyber sexual predation: A major dilemma of the internet

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 153-170

  Dombrowski, Stefan C ^a   Gischlar, Karen L ^b   Durst, Theo ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child abuse; Internet; Online grooming; Pornography

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250798040     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.939     Document Type: Article

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