Sexual Online Grooming of Children Challenges for Science and Practice

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• 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

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...