SENATE COMMITTEE LOOKS TO PROTECT CHILDREN ON INTERNET IN WASHINGTON
David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, Horton Social Sciences Center, University of New Hampshire testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on "Protecting Children on the Internet" on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 24, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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DURHAM, N.H., Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Many youth sexting cases getting police attention include aggravating circumstances, and arrest is not typical if no adults were involved, U.S. researchers say.
DURHAM, N.H., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- More than 45 percent of U.S. youth reported to authorities at least one instance of violence, abuse, crime or bullying in the past year, researchers say.
DURHAM, N.H., Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Even though 2008 was the first full year of recession, U.S. child abuse declined compared with 2007, U.S. researchers say.
DURHAM, N.H., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. children are routinely exposed to more violence and abuse than previously recognized -- nearly half experience a physical assault, researchers found.
DURHAM, N.H., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Most Internet sex offenders are not adults who target young children by posing as another youth, but rather are adults who target teens, a U.S. study found.
NEW YORK, April 30 (UPI) -- Critics of the latest prime-time, online sex crime show say the segment of "America's Most Wanted" series is more interested in ratings than fighting crime.
DURHAM, N.H., Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Children are less likely than they were a few years ago to encounter sexual predators online, a University of New Hampshire study found.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- State legislatures across the United States are becoming even more eager to crack down on child molesters.
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