Informative Reading: Internet Safety Education for Teens: Getting It Right

Internet Safety Education for Teens: Getting It Right. Crimes Against Children Research Center. Online February 2009. A growing number of people are promoting Internet safety education in an effort to help keep youngsters safe from Internet sex offenders. But some of the information in their lectures, pamphlets, videos, and web sites does not reflect what researchers have learned about the important features of these crimes.
Here are suggestions of how to make Internet safety education materials more consistent with current research. …