Child Exploitation Investigative Unit

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It’s 8:00 pm, you just tucked your 13-year-old daughter into bed. It’s been a busy day, so you just want to unwind. You log onto your family computer and see what appears to be a chat room still open in the browser. You see a conversation between your daughter and a man who is claiming to be 45 years old. You become curious and begin reading what seems to be the manipulation of your daughter’s innocence for this man’s own personal gain. You have to make the next step. What do you do? You do a quick search online and find yourself torn between two programs that are said to combat the issue: The Child Exploitation Investigative Unit and the Violent Crimes Against Children program. The purpose of my research is to compare and contrast between …show more content…

The dependent variable is the effectiveness of which program can protect children most effectively from child predators. The Child Exploitation Investigative Unit and the Violent Crimes Against Children program qualifies to be the independent variable because the independent variable is what is being manipulated. It is the root cause. The dependent variable is what is being influenced; that’s why the effectiveness of the program falls here. In order to understand my variables, they will be conceptualized and operationalized. My test variables are conceptualized by clarifying and arriving at a verbal definition of the VCAC and the CEIU. The VCAC is a program created by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which investigates online and in-person child abductions, child sexual exploitation enterprises (child prostitution), contact offenses, sex terrorism (producing child pornography), trafficking of child pornography, and international parent kidnapping(“Violent Crimes Against Children/Online Predators”, n.d.). The CEIU is a task force run by the Department of Homeland Security. It seeks to protect children by investigating those who possess, trade, and produce child pornography. It also investigates those who travel overseas with minors, along with those who engage in sex trafficking of children(“Child Exploitation Investigations Unit”, 2017). When conceptualizing my dependent variable, I will clarify and define what I mean by “protection” and “child predator.” Protection means to prevent from harm or injury. In this case, I mean to protect a child from mental and physical damage from a predator. A child predator can be defined as a person who seeks to connect with a minor via the internet or in person and harm them in any way. The VCAC and the CEIU will be operationalized by measuring the number of children who were found

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