Sexual Online Grooming of Children Challenges for Science and Practice

Preparing potential victims for their later sexual abuse has always been an integral part of child sexual victimization. Sexual grooming is thus a common epiphenomenon of child sexual abuse that has already been described for child sexual abusers in the pre-internet era. With the advent of the Inter...

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Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2025
Subjects
child abuse
children
epiphenomenon
internet
JBFK1 Child abuse
online sexual grooming
perpetrators
potential victims
prevention: prosecution
sexual abuse
sexual online grooming
Social and ethical issues
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
SOG
victims
Violence and abuse in society
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Summary:Preparing potential victims for their later sexual abuse has always been an integral part of child sexual victimization. Sexual grooming is thus a common epiphenomenon of child sexual abuse that has already been described for child sexual abusers in the pre-internet era. With the advent of the Internet, online sexual grooming (SOG) of children has sparked new interest in this topic. This book provides a comprehensive description of the phenomenon of online sexual grooming (SOG) of children. In addition to a description of the content of SOG, characteristics of victims and perpetrators as well as possibilities for prevention and prosecution and implications for science and practice are presented.
ISBN:3748903294
9783848762132
3848762137
9783748903291
DOI:10.5771/9783748903291