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SUMMARY:How Sex Offenders Groom Minors on the Internet - Dr Evianne van Gi
 jn\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20151013T120000Z
DTEND:20151013T130000Z
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CONTACT:Johanna M Lukate
DESCRIPTION:Little is known about how offenders approach\, groom\, or soli
 cit children online for offline sexual encounters. In order to protect chi
 ldren\, detect online grooming in a timely manner and to counteract the of
 fenders' behaviours\, it is important to understand how offenders groom ch
 ildren online. In this seminar I will present the results of my doctoral r
 esearch on the strategies that internet predators used to groom minors onl
 ine. For this research I designed a detailed coding scheme to code and ana
 lyse over 100 transcripts of online conversations between convicted offend
 ers and volunteer workers purporting to be children. This study was the fi
 rst to describe grooming behaviour qualitatively and quantitatively using 
 a large sample of convicted offenders\, and to include large numbers of of
 fenders who had approached boys as well as girls online. In this presentat
 ion I will present a detailed synthesis of how groomers behaved\, and the 
 differences between offenders' behaviours associated with the gender of th
 e children groomed. I will also present an online groomer typology scheme 
 based on cluster analyses which I performed using dimensions not previousl
 y used by other authors. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
  Site
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