The Brookings Institution has just released a new report on sextortion - a relatively new crime in which someone uses blackmail carried out over a computer network to force victims to engage in some form of sexual activity online.
Brookings has also released a companion report entitled "Closing the Sextortion Sentencing Gap: A Legislative Proposal."
Today, Brookings has an online webcast detailing the new reports, which were written by Benjamin Wittes, Cody Poplin, Quinta Jurecic and Clara Spera.
The new study says that sextortion is scarily common, and there could be more than 6,000 sextortion victims.
