Cyber-Stings: Policing Sex Offences on the Internet

Police Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 196-208

  Gillespie, Alisdair A ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child abuse; entrapment; Internet; police; sex offender; sting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054054245     PISSN: 0032258X     EISSN: 17405599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1350/pojo.2008.81.3.415     Document Type: Article

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