@article{ref1,
title="Investigators using the Internet to apprehend sex offenders: findings from the Second National Juvenile Online Victimization Study",
journal="Police practice and research",
year="2012",
author="Mitchell, Kimberly J. and Wolak, Janis and Finkelhor, Simon David and Jones, Lisa",
volume="13",
number="3",
pages="267-281",
abstract="This paper discusses the types of undercover investigations conducted on the Internet. Computer-assisted telephone interviews were conducted with police about 544 undercover cases ending in arrest for an Internet-related sex crime against a minor in 2006. The two most common types of undercover investigations involved police posing online as minors (76%) and undercover police investigations of child pornography (20%). Additionally, a few investigators were posing as adults having access to minors to sell or wanting to purchase sex with a minor (4%). The findings of this paper are a first step in understanding the efficacy of various types of investigations.<p />",
language="",
issn="1561-4263",
doi="10.1080/15614263.2011.627746",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2011.627746"
}