Sexual Online Grooming of Children: Challenges for Science and Practice
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2025), 304 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Sexuality, Health and Society, 2
ISBN 978-3-7489-0329-1 (pdf); 978-3-8487-6213-2 (print)
"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 Internet, online sexual grooming (SOG) of children has sparked new interest in this topic. This book provides a comprehensive description of the phenomenon of online sexual grooming (SOG) of children. In addition to a description of the content of SOG, characteristics of victims and perpetrators as well as possibilities for prevention and prosecution and implications for science and practice are presented." (Publisher description)
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Definition and Characteristics of the Phenomenon of Sexual Online Grooming / Zeev Hille, Daniela Stelzmann & Laura F. Kuhle, 17
2. CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING – UNDERSTANDING VULNERABILITIES IN ORDER TO PREVENT
2.1 Anna and her Family – Case Study of a Victim of Sexual Online Grooming / Julia von Weiler, 41
2.2 Victim’s Individual Risk Factors and Vulnerabilities to Sexual Online Grooming / Maria Ioannou & John Synnott, 57
2.3 Online Sexual Experiences of German Adolescents – Results from the Community-Based MiKADO Project / Halina Schmid & Janina Neutze, 75
2.4 Sexual Online Grooming – Prevention Concepts for the Protection of Primary School Children / Jennifer Vogel, 93
3. ANALYZING THE OFFENDER´S PERSPECTIVE – CHARACTERISTICS AND STRATEGIES OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING
3.1 The Magician – Case Study of a Hebephilic Man with History of Sexual Online Grooming / Miriam Schuler & Klaus M. Beier, 115
3.2 Sexual Online Grooming of Children – A Short Overview of the Offender Literature / Alexander F. Schmidt, 135
3.3 Hedonistic Utilitarianism: The Strategic Use of Digital Media along the Online-Offline Continuum of Sexualized Violence / Frederic Vobbe & Katharina Kargel, 153
3.4 Online Sexual Solicitation of Minors as a Specific Form of Sexual Online Grooming – Offender Data from an Adult Community-Based Sample / Anja Schulz & Petya Schuhmann, 167
3.5 Undetected Sexual Online Grooming: A Qualitative Analysis of Help-seeking Men with a Pedophilic and/or Hebephilic Sexual Preference Disorder / Laura F. Kuhle & Daniela Stelzmann, 185
4. PREVENTION OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING – LEGAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL
4.1 Combating the Phenomenon of Sexual Online Grooming from the Point of View of the State Office of Criminal Investigation Berlin / Sebastian Buchner, 203
4.2 Protecting Children from Sexual Online Grooming / Birgit Kimmel, Stefanie Rack & Stefanie Fachner, 225
4.3 Prevention Strategies for Offenders of Sexual Online Grooming / Laura F. Kuhle & Daniela Stelzmann, 243
4.4 Technical Perspectives of Sexual Online Grooming / Jenny Felser, Svenja Preus, Dirk Labudde & Michael Spranger, 263
1.1 Definition and Characteristics of the Phenomenon of Sexual Online Grooming / Zeev Hille, Daniela Stelzmann & Laura F. Kuhle, 17
2. CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING – UNDERSTANDING VULNERABILITIES IN ORDER TO PREVENT
2.1 Anna and her Family – Case Study of a Victim of Sexual Online Grooming / Julia von Weiler, 41
2.2 Victim’s Individual Risk Factors and Vulnerabilities to Sexual Online Grooming / Maria Ioannou & John Synnott, 57
2.3 Online Sexual Experiences of German Adolescents – Results from the Community-Based MiKADO Project / Halina Schmid & Janina Neutze, 75
2.4 Sexual Online Grooming – Prevention Concepts for the Protection of Primary School Children / Jennifer Vogel, 93
3. ANALYZING THE OFFENDER´S PERSPECTIVE – CHARACTERISTICS AND STRATEGIES OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING
3.1 The Magician – Case Study of a Hebephilic Man with History of Sexual Online Grooming / Miriam Schuler & Klaus M. Beier, 115
3.2 Sexual Online Grooming of Children – A Short Overview of the Offender Literature / Alexander F. Schmidt, 135
3.3 Hedonistic Utilitarianism: The Strategic Use of Digital Media along the Online-Offline Continuum of Sexualized Violence / Frederic Vobbe & Katharina Kargel, 153
3.4 Online Sexual Solicitation of Minors as a Specific Form of Sexual Online Grooming – Offender Data from an Adult Community-Based Sample / Anja Schulz & Petya Schuhmann, 167
3.5 Undetected Sexual Online Grooming: A Qualitative Analysis of Help-seeking Men with a Pedophilic and/or Hebephilic Sexual Preference Disorder / Laura F. Kuhle & Daniela Stelzmann, 185
4. PREVENTION OF SEXUAL ONLINE GROOMING – LEGAL, PSYCHOSOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL
4.1 Combating the Phenomenon of Sexual Online Grooming from the Point of View of the State Office of Criminal Investigation Berlin / Sebastian Buchner, 203
4.2 Protecting Children from Sexual Online Grooming / Birgit Kimmel, Stefanie Rack & Stefanie Fachner, 225
4.3 Prevention Strategies for Offenders of Sexual Online Grooming / Laura F. Kuhle & Daniela Stelzmann, 243
4.4 Technical Perspectives of Sexual Online Grooming / Jenny Felser, Svenja Preus, Dirk Labudde & Michael Spranger, 263
