Exam 12: Sex Offenders on the Internet

Providing information about an offender's method of approach, attack, or control may help investigators interact with an offender or provide potential victims with protective advice.

Detailed knowledge of an offender can help investigators:

Typically, children are not used in undercover investigations because:

"Grooming" refers to the ways that a sexual offender gains control over victims.

The process of correlating evidence through temporal, relational, and functional analysis is known as:

Sex offender peer support groups can give offenders access to child pornography, children, and technical knowledge.

Failure to interpret evidence, obtain information from an unknown offender, or apprehend an unknown offender can be caused by:

When dealing with online sexual offenders, it is critically important to take advantage of the Internet as a source of evidence.

Generalizations regarding investigations are of particular use, even though cases tend to be unique.

If an offender's computer reveals a large number of contacts, a good solution is:

When the offender is unknown, the reconstruction process becomes a necessary step to:

An offender's choice of location, tools, and actions taken are referred to as:

The initial stage of any investigation is to determine if a crime has actually occurred.

Confronting the victim with evidence of their abuse is standard practice in sex offender cases.

Because sex offenders tend to be nonviolent, investigators do not need to take the same precautions when serving warrants on computer-related offenses as they would with other crimes.

An accepted method of conducting undercover investigations involves using a minor, especially if the minor is the victim.

Which of the following is an impact of sex offender peer support groups?

Lanning identifies three general categories of sex offenders: situational, preferential, and differential.

Given the potential for concealment in sex offender cases, it is important to examine all digital evidence carefully rather than simply searching for a obvious items such as images that are not hidden.

Discuss the responsibility of the digital investigator in bringing charges of sex offense or possession of child pornography against a member of the local community.