To Catch a Predator
Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home
Published on 15. March 2007
256 pages
978-1-101-21367-4 (ISBN)
Description
An urgently needed primer on how to protect kids from the increasing threat of online predators
Over 40 million Americans have seen Dateline's ongoing popular series To Catch a Predator, which has caught over two hundred potential child predators. Here, Hansen shares the true stories of families who have been targeted by predators, revealing the tactics predators use to manipulate their victims and why even cautious families can be vulnerable to their attacks. He also offers suggestions from police officers, therapists, and child predators on the best approaches for preventing these crimes. Most critically, he provides parents with concrete steps they can take to protect their kids today, including how to initiate meaningful conversations with their children. To Catch a Predator teaches parents and children what they need to know before the next predator strikes.
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03/2008
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Person
Chris Hansen is a journalist and correspondent who is best known for his work on the Dateline NBC television segment "To Catch a Predator," which revolves around catching Internet sex predators using a sting operation. His newest show, Killer Instinct, is on Investigation Discovery. He lives in Connecticut.
