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Reference works, academic literature, and encyclopedic records confirm that Chris Hansen's To Catch a Predator was a genuine, documentary-style investigative television segment broadcast on Dateline NBC.

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This paper discusses moral panics over contemporary technology, or “technopanics.” I use the cyberporn panic of 1996 and the contemporary panic over online predators and MySpace to demonstrate links between media coverage and content legislation. In both cases, Internet content legislation is directly linked to media-fueled moral panics that concern uses of technology deemed harmful to children. This is of particular interest right now as a new internet content bill, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), is being debated in Congress. The technopanic over “online predators” is remarkably similar to the cyberporn panic; both are fueled by media coverage, both rely on the idea of harm to children as the justification for internet content restriction, and both have resulted in carefully crafted legislation to circumvent First Amendment concerns. Research demonstrates that legislation proposed (or passed) to curb these problems is an extraordinary response; it is misguided and in many cases masks the underlying problem.
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To Catch a Predator is an American reality television series in the television news magazine program Dateline NBC. The program features confrontations by host Chris Hansen, partly filmed with a hidden camera, with adult men arriving at a sting house to have sex with a minor and typically being arrested as a result, with the minors being adults impersonating underage persons in online chats. The se To Catch a… To… But…
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Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation. When the segment's three-year run concluded, Hansen continued to host Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation. When the segment's three-year run concluded, Hansen continued to host shows on other networks with a similar format. After parting ways with NBC in 2013, he began hosting Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery in 2015, a short-lived series that documented homicide investigations. That same year, he replaced Matt Doran as the host of the syndicated series Crime Watch Daily, which he hosted for two seasons and had his own segment similar to his Dateline feature, Hansen vs. Predator. He co-founded the true crime–oriented streaming service TruBlu in 2020, for which he produced and starred in the web series Takedown with Chris Hansen. Hansen has earned several accolades, including ten Emmy Awards, five Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the National Press Club award, and awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International. Hansen and numerous subjects of his investigations have garnered online cult followings, and Hansen is considered a progenitor in content centered around sting operations. In August 2025, in the wake of the Roblox Schlep ban controversy in which the YouTuber Schlep was banned from Roblox for conducting stings on alleged child predators, rumors spread on social media that Chris Hansen would Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television presenter, journalist, and YouTube personality. During his tenure as a correspondent for Dateline NBC, he hosted the program's segment To Catch a Predator (2004–2007), which revolved around catching potential Internet predators using a sting operation. When the segment's three-year run concluded, Hansen continued to host shows on other networks with a similar format. After parting ways with NBC in 2013, he began hosting Killer Instinct on Investigation Discovery in 2015, a short-lived series that documented homicide investigations. That same year, he replaced Matt Doran as the host of the syndicated series Crime Watch Daily, which he hosted for two seasons and had his own segment similar to his Dateline feature, Hansen vs. Predator. He co-founded the true crime–oriented streaming service TruBlu in 2020, for which he produced and starred in the web series Takedown with Chris Hansen. Hansen has earned several accolades, including ten Emmy Awards, five Edward R. Murrow Awards, three Clarion awards, the National Press Club award, and awards for excellence from the Associated Press and United Press International. Hansen and numerous subjects of his investigations have garnered online cult followings, and Hansen is considered a progenitor in content centered around sting operations. In conjunction with the website Perverted-Justice, Hansen hosted a series of Dateline NBC reports under the title To Catch a Predator. Volunteers from Perverted-Justice impersonated minors such as pre-teens to young-mid teenagers (usually 11–15 year old) in chat rooms online and agreed to meet with adults for sex. The meeting places were "sting houses", where camera crews from NBC, and in later episodes local police, awaited potential sexual predators. Capitalizing on the success of Hansen and his Predator investigations, Dateline NBC created three Tuesday night spin-offs of its original concept; Hansen hosted To Catch a Con Man and To Catch an I.D. Thief. In March 2007, Hansen's book, To Catch a Predator: Protecting Your Kids from Online Enemies Already in Your Home, was released in the American market. In August 2013, NBC decided not to renew its contract with Hansen, ultimately ending his tenure of 20 years. In August 2025, in the wake of the Roblox Schlep ban controversy in which the YouTuber Schlep was banned from Roblox for conducting stings on alleged child predators, rumors spread on social media that Chris Hansen would create a project focusing on the state of child safety on Roblox. Hansen confirmed the rumors on August 15, stating that he had interviewed law enforcement, abuse victims, and Schlep for a documentary film. Chris Hansen was interviewed by Schlep on August 22 about the documentary. During the discussion, he praised Schlep for his efforts against alleged child predators and said that he had "expanded on his plans" for the documentary. The documentary, Dangerous Games: Investigating Roblox — A Chris Hansen Special, was released on February 27, 2026 on the streaming platform TruBlu. Hansen has appeared on such television programs as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Adam Carolla Show, Today, Scarborough Country, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Rise Guys Morning Show, The Don and Mike Show, The Opie and Anthony Radio Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jesse Watters Primetime, Glenn Beck Program, and Diggnation. On January 9, 2007, Hansen appeared on the BET news series American Gangster. The special, which was hosted by actor Ving Rhames, focused on Detroit drug lords, the Chambers Brothers gang. Hansen gave insight into the lives of the brothers based on the reporting he had done on them in the 1980s and 1990s as a reporter for ABC affiliate WXYZ (Channel 7) and NBC affiliate WDIV (Channel 4). Hansen hosted CrimeCon's 2026 Clue Awards.
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| AFIGURE 11-12 Dateline NBC: To catch a predator Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen interviews a young man … Commercial-Vehicle and Cargo Theft 493 Investigative Tools and Techniques 493 Major Investigative Resources 493 AAMVANET … help accomplish investigative tasks; collecting information is the key investigative task of police work Occupy Wall Street TV NSA Clip Library Top Animation & Cartoons Arts & Music Computers & Technology Cultural & Academic Films Ephemeral Films Movies News & Public Affairs Spirituality & Religion Sports Videos Television Videogame Videos Vlogs Youth Media Search the history of more than 1 trillion web pages . Search the Wayback Machine Mobile Apps Wayback Machine (iOS) Wayback Machine (Android) Browser Extensions Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Archive-It Subscription Explore the Collections Learn More Build Collections Save Page Now Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Favorite Share Flag Flag this item for Graphic Violence Explicit Sexual Content Hate Speech Misinformation/Disinformation Marketing/Phishing/Advertising Misleading/Inaccurate/Missing Metadata texts Criminal Investigation by Charles Swanson, Neil Chamelin, Leonard Territo, Robert Taylor Publication date 2009-01-01 Publisher n/a Collection internetarchivebooks ; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 2.6G Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2024-02-13 10:23:52 Autocrop_version 0.0.17_books-serials-20230720-0.3 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA41235505 Camera USB PTP Class Camera External-identifier urn:lcp:criminalinvestig0000char:epub:6bdaf527-439f-45c6-b28b-88745f4b0eea urn:lcp:criminalinvestig0000char:lcpdf:82d9f816-a3f2-4974-8f39-2c987ea74b47 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier criminalinvestig0000char Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2x0qvzh6pq Isbn 9780077451943 Metasource_catalog openlibrary Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9988 Ocr_module_version 0.0.21 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-CB-1300090 Openlibrary_edition OL49227137M Openlibrary_work OL36433159W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 100 Page_number_module_version 1.0.3 Pages 810 Pdf_module_version 0.0.23 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 26737 Republisher_date 20240215215432 Republisher_operator associate-mavanessa-cando@archive.org Republisher_time 848 Scandate 20240213151153 Scanner station43.cebu.archive.org Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780077451943 Tts_version 6.5-initial-117-g859c1211 Show More Show Less plus-circle Add Review comment Reviews 238 Views DOWNLOAD OPTIONS No suitable files to display here.
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