Final Report - European Online Grooming Project

events was gathered and is reported later in this report. The groups included three with parents; three with
teachers, and one with forensic psychologists. All participants were provided with information before each
event and gave consent to take part. The workshop format was agreed between team members, but varied
to reflect the local context and group members, with materials translated into the 3 languages from English.
The format included a presentation of key findings from the project, a period of discussion and then a
standardised evaluation form to ascertain the usefulness of the messages.
2.9 Qualitative Analysis
The case file and interview data was analysed using Framework (Ritchie & Lewis, 2003), a systematic
approach to qualitative data management developed by NatCen Social Research. This involved a number of
stages. First, the key topics and issues which emerged from the research objectives and the data were
identified through familiarisation with the transcripts. An initial analytical framework was then drawn up and a
series of thematic charts or matrices were set up, each relating to a different thematic issue. The columns in
each matrix represented the key sub-themes or topics and the rows represented the individual interview
participants. Data from each interview transcript was summarised into the appropriate cell and was grounded
in participants’ own accounts. The final stage of analysis involved working through the charted interview data
in detail, drawing out the range of experiences and views, identifying similarities and differences, developing
and testing hypotheses, and interrogating the data to seek to explain emergent patterns and findings.
2.10 Coverage of the report
This report brings together findings from the main stages of the European Online Grooming Project. That is,
the in-depth interviews with online groomers, focus groups with young people, and dissemination events with
key stakeholder groups. The scoping report and literature review have been published and are available for
download at the project web-site 12 . The next chapter describes the features of online grooming. Chapter 4
sets out the maintenance and risk management strategies that were important in underpinning online
grooming behaviour. Chapter 5 presents a typology of online groomers alongside case-study material. This
is followed in chapter 6 by a description of young people online, from the perspective of online groomers and
young people themselves. Finally, chapter 7 illustrates the implications of the research for safety campaigns,
the Internet industry, and the treatment and management of online groomers.
12 http://www.europeanonlinegroomingproject.com/
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