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"Someone to Watch Over Me" Program Part I Building the Infrastructure Social Capital as a Foundation Social capital refers to the patterns of relationships that people have that are characterized by reciprocity and trust which result in access to resources like jobs, social services, or contracts. Social capital is both structural and procedural. Relationships, as they are studied by community organizers, have a network structure. But this is does not address the quality of the relationships

Child sex trafficking is a crime people do not like to think about. Most Americans assume that trafficking is a problem that only happens in other countries. This assumption is wrong. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children child sex trafficking occurs in all fifty states (NCMEC, n.d.). The United States Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 defines sex trafficking as, “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the

meet victims while minimizing detection. They can communicate with children anonymously through instant messaging, social networking sites, chat rooms, message boards, and even cell phones. Online predators do not fit any one mold or stereotype; seemingly upstanding citizens have been caught enticing children for sexual acts. Contrary to popular belief, most online predators are not pedophiles. Pedophiles target pre-pubescent children, while online predators typically target adolescents who engage in

Cell Phones: Pro vs. Con Cell phones have come a long way since April 3, 1973 when the first phone was invented. The first call in history was made that day by Motorola employee Martin Cooper, as he stood next to a 900 MHz base station in New York City and phoned to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey (The Cellphone Turns 40: Remembering Martin Cooper’s Historic Call). Since that day, cell phones have evolved to become what is now a all-in-one master piece. A current cell phone removes the

Fund (UNICEF), over the past 30 years, over 30 million children have been sexually exploited through human trafficking” (Random Facts, 2015, para. 24). According to National Center for Missing & Exploited Children who works with federal, state and local law enforcement: in 2015 there was more than 4.3 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation calls receive through the Cyber Tipline. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Center also analyzed more than 139 million images and videos

chips would make a difference in kidnapping, child abduction, and child pornography. Despite being journalistic in origin, the article quotes statistics from other reliable sources, like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This data indicates that about 800,000 children are reported missing annually, but only 115 of them were kidnapped by criminals or people they did not know. Some would argue that if a microchip can prevent even one child's death, the other consequences are worth

Online Communities. To start off my essay I would like to stress on the fact that an online community is not created online communities evolve and flourish. Most of the well built online communities take time and effort to establish them. In this essay I will be covering topics like how people interact in an online community, also will be looking at how to facilitate a successful online discussion and how to evaluate the success or failure of an online community. With the dawn of the new

prominent issue as technology is allowing offenders more access to material, better ways to remain hidden, and access to victims that may not have originally been available. One recent example of how technology can be used for the sexual abuse of children is the case of Michael Dean Ross. Online child sexual abuse would be classified as a cybercrime as the crime “involved a computer and a network, where a computer may or may not have played an instrumental part in the commission of the crime” (Moore

Unfortunately, technology today is helping criminals commit money laundering off of their profits made from drug crimes and prostitution in cyberspace and the ease of transportation and smuggling operations. Drug trafficking is associated with organized crime and violence linked to human trafficking and money laundering schemes that can also support criminal activities in several countries including terrorist activities. The increase of technology is allowing people to shop online and is used for

Child Abduction: Missing without a Trace Today, we are all here gathered for Eli Davis, a charming, charismatic little boy with a smile that would brighten anyone’s day. His laugh was loud, but loved many, his eyes were big and bright, but we cannot say the same about his future because he never got the chance. No one saw it coming, but it came, and if we could turn back the hands of time to work in Elis favor it would be handled with the snap of a finger. If only we were more caring, careful,