CMRJ515 Week 6 Discussion

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One of the most significant defenses that we have against child exploitation in the United States are the task forces that have been designed and implemented to help prevent, locate, recover, and prosecute those who are involved in the child tourism trade. One of the task forces in particular is the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. This task force was created specifically to target the online community. The importance of this is that many of the individuals who are active in the child tourism trade are active online by uploading encrypted information, images, and videos of the children that are in stuck in the tourist trade and being exploited online to the predators who are online searching for that information (Marcum & Higgens, 2011). This is also how the individuals in the trade communicate and try to find potential customers to travel for the tourist trade in other countries. The Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force is able to locate the information that is flowing through the internet and decrypt the files, locating where the images and information has originated from as often as they can, so that they can pinpoint the locations of the children and rescue them from the tourist trade while arresting and prosecuting the ones responsible for harming the children. At the very least, the ICAC is able to find and arrest the offenders who are taking advantage of the children by buying the images and videos of the children being exploited. Once the individuals have been located and the children are in the custody of the authorities, there are other issues that may arise. The authorities may have trouble getting the children to talk to them for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the children have been through so much already, they likely would be afraid. They would not know if they could trust anyone or who they could trust. They may also feel like the only people that they can trust are the people who have done them harm because they have been groomed that way by their pimps or madams. The children may think that they will never be safe and if they speak to the police, they will be harmed even more, starved, or lose their shelter. There are so many reasons that the children who are victims of child exploitation may not want to speak to investigators the list could go on and on. It could come down to the whole situation being embarrassing to the child or just being too upsetting to want to have to talk about. Marcum, C. D., & Higgins, G. E. (2011). Combating Child Exploitation Online: Predictors of Successful ICAC Task Forces. Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice, 5(4), 310–316. https://doi-org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1093/police/par044

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