Social media’s growing popularity raises concerns around children’s online safety. Interactions between minors and adults with predatory intentions is a particularly grave concern. Research into online sexual grooming ...

This article focuses on the problem of risk instrumentalism in social work and the way it can erode the relationship-based nature of practice and with it, the kinds of critical reflexivity required for remedial interventions ...

The law recognises that non-contact sexual offences can cause harm and several offences were created to regulate non-contact sexual child abuse offences. Several of these offences deal with the exposure or causing exposure ...

The goal of this report is “to identify investigative factors that reliably indicate whether a subject of an online child exploitation investigation poses a high risk of harm to children,” per Section 401 of the PROTECT ...

Background The current study aimed at exploring adolescents’ experiences of online sexual contacts leading to online sexual abuse by a perpetrator whom the victim had first met online. Associations with socio demographic ...

Essay on prevention of sexual misconduct within schools.

This review explores risk factors that may make a young person vulnerable to being groomed online. Even though research in this area is extremely limited, adolescents appear to be the age group most vulnerable to online ...

Linguistic research into online grooming is scarce despite both the communicative essence of this form of online child sexual abuse and a substantial body of literature into it across other Social Sciences. Most of this ...

Key areas under examination in this guide are (1) understanding the behavior of child predators; (2) understanding how child predators use computers; (3) understanding how to investigate cases involving computers; and (4) ...