Stages of Sexual Grooming: Recognizing Potentially Predatory Behaviors of Child Molesters

Winters, Georgia M.; Jeglic, Elizabeth L.

doi:10.1080/01639625.2016.1197656

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“…In many cases, finding proof of the sexual intent is difficult unless the sexual abuse has already occurred (Craven, Brown and Gilchrist, 2007). Because of this, it is important that people know and identify early warning signs of grooming (Winters and Jeglic 2017).…”

Section: Importance Of Understanding Sexual Groomingmentioning

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Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

Spraitz

Bowen

Strange

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Sexual grooming is generally thought of as the way that would-be abusers build trust and camaraderie with their victims in order to lower the victims' inhibitions and eventually take advantage of the situation. Minimal levels of empiricism have focused on the sexual grooming patterns of abusive Catholic priests in the United States. In order to help close this gap, we conducted a retrospective content analysis of publicly available documents of credibly accused priests from one diocese in Illinois. Findings suggest that accused priests from this diocese used any of eight grooming techniques in order to abuse their victims; one of these tactics is specific to priest offenders. Using that knowledge, we propose and discuss a behavioral taxonomy of priest sexual grooming as well as the direction that future research should take in assessing this potential taxonomy. KeywordsSexual abuse; priests; Catholic Church; grooming; taxonomy; content analysis. Please cite this article as:

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Section: Importance Of Understanding Sexual Groomingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

Spraitz

Bowen

Strange

2018

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…Similar to the selection of victims by paedophiles, recruiters may be triggered by ease of access and perceived familial vulnerability (e.g., children living in single family households, those who have less adult supervision or neglectful parents, those who experience domestic abuse, etc.). 27 Unlike paedophiles, however, child recruiters in ISISheld territories are able to operate with impunity. With or without local community support, ISIS uses its resources to provide recruiters with easier access to children through media kiosks and mosque-based qur'anic sessions, to name a few.…”

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ISIS Child Soldiers in Syria: The Structural and Predatory Recruitment, Enlistment, Pre-Training Indoctrination, Training, and Deployment

Almohammad¹

2018

ICCT Research Papers

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Research on the engagement of children with the so-called Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS) relies heavily on the analysis of obtained ISIS documents and ISIS-disseminated propaganda, leaving major elements of the recruitment and deployment process uncovered. Such ambiguities hinder future efforts aimed at dealing with ISIS' child soldiers. As such, an intensive effort to compile data using interviews and naturalistic observations across ISISheld territories in Syria was made to exhaustively explore the process of child recruitment and deployment by ISIS. Findings suggest that there are two methods of recruitment: predatory and structural. The enlistment, intensity of indoctrination, types of training, and nature of deployment were found to depend, to a high degree, on the type of recruitment (i.e., predatory or structural), and category of children based on their origin (i.e., local, Middle Eastern and North African [MENA], or foreign) and if they are orphans. The data shows that the separation between children and adults' roles/assignments is diminishing. After a thorough exploration of the elements of ISIS' recruitment and deployment process, this paper argues its findings, implications, and limitations.

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“…A Internet veio alterar o processo de grooming sexual tradicional, referente às ações levadas a cabo por um ofensor para criar as condições necessárias para cometer uma ofensa sexual contra uma criança sem ser descoberto (Craven, Brown, & Gilchrist, 2006;McAlinden, 2006). Para tal, existe uma manipulação estratégica da vítima e da respetiva família e comunidade, com recurso à construção de relações de confiança com estes que tornam menos provável a deteção dos abusos ou a denúncia por parte da criança e a perceção do ofensor como uma ameaça por parte dos responsáveis (McAlinden, 2006;Winters & Jeglic, 2016).…”

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O aliciamento sexual de menores na internet: contributos para o seu conhecimento e prevenção

Barbosa

Manita

2019

Revista INFAD de Psicología

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A crescente utilização da Internet e de redes sociais por crianças e jovens tem vindo a criar condições para o desenvolvimento de novas modalidades de grooming sexual, um processo facilitador da perpetração de crimes sexuais, na medida em que permite um acesso facilitado a um elevado número de potenciais vítimas, aumenta as oportunidades para o estabelecimento de contactos, quer online quer diretos, e facilita a identificação de vulnerabilidades nos menores. Este é um fenómeno em expansão, tornando-se urgente conhecê-lo, de forma a desenvolver estratégias eficazes de promoção da segurança das crianças e jovens na Internet e evitar danos decorrentes desta forma de abuso. O presente estudo recorreu a uma metodologia qualitativa, utilizando como métodos de recolha de dados a entrevista semiestruturada e a análise documental, submetidos a uma análise de conteúdo, com construção de uma grelha de análise categorial do tipo semântico. A amostra englobou 4 ofensores do sexo masculino, 2 entrevistados face-a-face e 2 envolvidos em diálogos sexualizados mantidos online com menores de idade, e 1 vítima do sexo feminino, também entrevistada. Os resultados permitiram distinguir duas abordagens distintas dos menores-uma muito direta, com a introdução quase imediata de temáticas sexuais, e outra em que o sujeito adota um conjunto de estratégias que têm por base a criação e manutenção de um vínculo relacional, de acordo com os mecanismos considerados centrais no grooming. Enquanto na interação mais direta o ofensor parece aproveitar-se da curiosidade sexual típica do período de desenvolvimento, na segunda abordagem o sujeito recorre ao vínculo relacional para conseguir o envolvimento dos menores e evitar a revelação dos abusos. Apesar de o grooming surgir na literatura como um componente central das

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Stages of Sexual Grooming: Recognizing Potentially Predatory Behaviors of Child Molesters

Cited by 90 publications

References 20 publications

Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

Proposing a Behavioral Taxonomy of Priest Sexual Grooming

ISIS Child Soldiers in Syria: The Structural and Predatory Recruitment, Enlistment, Pre-Training Indoctrination, Training, and Deployment

O aliciamento sexual de menores na internet: contributos para o seu conhecimento e prevenção

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