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Online Grooming
This book is concerned with white-collar offendersonline grooming online who victimize individuals and organizations by financial crime. A very...
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The Complexities of Understanding Sexual Grooming Behaviours
Sexual grooming has been deemed an integral part of the child sexual abuse (CSA) process. However, there has yet to be a widely accepted definition...
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Online Grooming: An Exploration into the Genetic-Social Variables Which Enable Victimisation
Within contemporary society, it is evident that cybercrime has progressively become an unavoidable danger. This risk is particularly alarming in...
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Online Child Sexual Abuse and Modus Operandi
This chapter explains the concept of online child sexual abuse in a comparative analysis with reference to the actual real sexual abuse. This chapter...
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Assuming Identities Online: How Linguistics Is Hel** the Policing of Online Grooming and the Distribution of Abusive Images
In this chapter we seek to elucidate the potential of linguistic analysis in the undercover pursuit of criminals online. We examine the relationship...
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Introduction to Child Sexual Abuse and Online Child Sexual Abuse
This chapter introduces the readers to what is child sexual abuse and the concept of what is online child sexual abuse. This chapter emphasizes about...
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Vygotsky and Internet Grooming: The Darker Side of ZPD and Scaffolding
Develo** a typology for internet grooming offenders is complex and difficult to achieve as online offenders can cross typologies or work through...
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Online Convenience
Convenience is a term frequently used in the marketing literature (Farquhar and Rowley, Marketing Theory 9:425–438, 2009; Locke and Blomquist, Land...
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Understanding Romance Scammers Through the Lens of Their Victims: Qualitative Modeling of Risk and Protective Factors in the Online Context
Romance scams represent a form of online crime with origins in the physical world, including FTF and physical mail scams. Although these crimes have...
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Online Messaging as a Cybercrime Prevention Tool in the Post-pandemic Age
Cybercrime poses serious challenges for law enforcement. During the social upheaval witnessed in the years of the coronavirus pandemic, new...
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Can a police-delivered intervention improve children’ online safety? A cluster randomised controlled trial on the effect of the “ThinkUKnow” programme in primary and secondary Australian schools
PurposeOnline abuse of and by children is a global concern. Methods to prevent this phenomenon are diverse; however, less is known about police-led...
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Conducting Psychosocial Research with Victims of Sexting and Online Sexual Victimization in Spain
Sexting, defined as the act of creating, sending, and/or forwarding sexual content through electronic devices, is a phenomenon that has been widely...
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Rethinking Cybercrime Critical Debates
The book provides a contemporary ‘snapshot’ of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and...
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Hello Pretty, Hello Handsome!: Exploring the Menace of Online Dating and Romance Scam in Africa
Online dating and romance scam represent a serious concern in criminal psychology following the increasing trends and innovations in information and...
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Challenges and Opportunities in Investigations of Online Sexual Exploitation of Children: Old Networks, Dark Web, and Proactive Response
The Internet provides private spaces that make it easier to engage in sexual activities, including with minors, and has also facilitated contact with...
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Digital Defence in the Classroom: Develo** Feminist School Guidance on Online Sexual Harassment for Under 18s
Drawing from semi-structured interviews with seven safeguarding leads, focus groups and quantitative surveys with 480 young people aged 13–18,...
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Exploring the Presence of the Digital Detective within the True-Crime Genre and its Online Spaces
This chapter explores the spaces of true crime and the role digital detectives take when creating and sustaining these sites. Using true crime...
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The Rise of Sex Trafficking Online
Human trafficking has been in existence for thousands of years but commonly has been labeled slavery. Early examples are present in Mesopotamia,...
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Legislative Frameworks: The United Kingdom
This chapter discusses the cybercrime legislative framework within the United Kingdom, including computer misuse, cyber-harassment, offensive online...
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Cybercrime in the Develo** Nations: Internet as Means of Sex Trafficking in Africa
Cybercrimes are a borderless threat that develo** and developed nations are affected by. The general use of technology and the increasing rates of...