Final Report - European Online Grooming Project

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Acknowledgements We would like to thank Evangelia Markidou and Margareta Traung from the European Commission Safer Internet Plus Programme for all their support during this research. From NatCen Social Research we thank Ian Simpson, Vera Schneider, Tom Kenny and Lisa Mills for their help charting the interview data, and Anne Summers for consistent support with project dissemination. We are also indebted to the professional stakeholders, parents, young people and men convicted of online grooming for giving their time to this study, in particular, their openness and honesty in discussing this difficult social issue. 2 of 152 |Final report European Online Grooming Project_
Contents 1. Executive Summary............................................................................................................ 5 Background...............................................................................................................................................................5 Aims ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...5 Methods ....................................................................................................................................................................5 Characteristics of Online Groomers, Technology and Websites ..............................................................................6 Features of Online Grooming ...................................................................................................................................6 Vulnerability..................................................................................................................................................8 Scanning ......................................................................................................................................................8 Identity..........................................................................................................................................................8 Contact.........................................................................................................................................................8 Intensity........................................................................................................................................................9 Outcomes...................................................................................................................................................10 Offender Maintenance and Risk Management .......................................................................................................10 Maintenance...............................................................................................................................................11 Dissonance ................................................................................................................................................11 Perceptions of young people and behaviour..............................................................................................13 Risk Management ......................................................................................................................................13 Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) logistics ....................................................................13 Conversation management........................................................................................................................13 Offending location ......................................................................................................................................13 Typology of Online Groomers.................................................................................................................................13 Intimacy-Seeking........................................................................................................................................14 Adaptable Style ..........................................................................................................................................14 Hyper-Sexualised.......................................................................................................................................14 Young People Online..............................................................................................................................................14 Typology of Young People Victimised .......................................................................................................15 Matching Grooming Style with Young People............................................................................................15 Resilient Young People..............................................................................................................................16 Young People Online: Focus group data................................................................................................................16 Nature and extent of Internet use...............................................................................................................17 Online safety ..............................................................................................................................................17 Social networking - Facebook....................................................................................................................18 Awareness and Perception of Online Groomers........................................................................................19 Attitudes to Safety Training........................................................................................................................19 Implications: Applying the Research to Practice.....................................................................................................20 Safety initiatives in a public health model ..................................................................................................20 Public protection and intervention packages .............................................................................................20 How can the industry contribute.................................................................................................................21 Online groomers assessment and treatment needs ..................................................................................21 Risk assessment........................................................................................................................................21 Treatment approaches...............................................................................................................................22 Raising awareness across key stakeholders .............................................................................................22 2. Introduction....................................................................................................................... 24 2.1 Scale of the challenge ......................................................................................................................................24 Online offending .........................................................................................................................................25 Indecent child image collection ..................................................................................................................26 Prevalence of online grooming...................................................................................................................26 Current policy context ................................................................................................................................27 2.2 Research Objectives ........................................................................................................................................30 2.3 Research Design..............................................................................................................................................30 2.4 The Scoping Phase ......................................................................................................................30 2.5 Scoping Methods ..........................................................................................................................31 Literature review.........................................................................................................................................31 Review of police case files.........................................................................................................................31 Interviews with strategic stakeholders........................................................................................................32 2.6 Interviews with Online Groomers..................................................................................................33 2.7 Focus Groups with Young People ................................................................................................34 2.8 Stakeholder Dissemination Events ...............................................................................................35 2.9 Qualitative Analysis ..........................................................................................................................................36 2.10 Coverage of the report ...............................................................................................................................36 3 of 152 |Final report European Online Grooming Project_
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conversations to escalate in a way
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I felt powerful and important knowi
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children. Consequently, online groo
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forefront of their functioning. The
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achieved that allowed each groomer
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Risk Management Adaptable Style Dis
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of themselves. As we have seen in t
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of online technology and mobile pho
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Targeted programmes for young peopl
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the grooming to which they were sub
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with particular regard to anonymity
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measures for online groomers. A key
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addition, the Good Lives Model-Comp
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References Andrews, D. A., Bonta, J
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Hayes, E., Archer, D. & Middleton,
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Taylor, M. & Quayle, E. (2006). The
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