A scoping review of child grooming strategies: Pre-and post-internet

TR Ringenberg, KC Seigfried-Spellar, JM Rayz… - Child Abuse & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Researchers have studied the online sexual grooming of minors extensively
since the early 2000s. However, the grooming process is neither new nor restricted to digital …

A human-centered systematic literature review of the computational approaches for online sexual risk detection

A Razi, S Kim, A Alsoubai, G Stringhini… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In the era of big data and artificial intelligence, online risk detection has become a popular
research topic. From detecting online harassment to the sexual predation of youth, the state …

Efficacy of video-based teacher professional development for increasing classroom discourse and student learning

G Chen, CKK Chan, KKH Chan, SN Clarke… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Although professional development (PD) programs often use video, extraneous
information during video viewing can distract teachers. We developed a discourse …

Assessing differences in grooming stages and strategies in decoy, victim, and law enforcement conversations

TR Ringenberg, K Seigfried-Spellar, J Rayz - Computers in Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Child enticement of minors occurs when an adult approaches a child online for sexual
purposes, often through a manipulative trust process known as grooming. Due to increased …

Child sexual abuse material in child-centred institutions: situational crime prevention approaches

T Krone, C Spiranovic, J Prichard… - Journal of sexual …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper focuses on the potential for child-centred institutions to use situational crime
prevention (SCP) strategies to prevent or reduce child sexual abuse material (CSAM) …

Child sexual exploitation: Introduction to a global problem

KC Seigfried-Spellar, V Soldino - The palgrave handbook of international …, 2020 - Springer
Child sexual exploitation is a form of child sexual abuse, which as a broad category includes
various forms of offenses toward children (both online and offline), such as commercial …

Protecting Children from Online Exploitation: Can a Trained Model Detect Harmful Communication Strategies?

D Cook, M Zilka, H DeSandre, S Giles… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The growing popularity of social media raises concerns about children's online safety. Of
particular concern are interactions between minors and adults with predatory intentions …

Chat Analysis Triage Tool: Differentiating contact-driven vs. fantasy-driven child sex offenders

KC Seigfried-Spellar, MK Rogers, JT Rayz… - Forensic science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Investigating crimes against children, specifically sexual solicitations, are complicated
because not all offenders are contact-driven, meaning they want to meet the minor for sex in …

[HTML][HTML] Criminological differences between contact-driven and online-focused suspects in online child sexual grooming police reports

V Soldino, KC Seigfried-Spellar - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Differences exist between contact and noncontact-driven online child sexual
abuse offenders; however, there is still a notable lack of empirical studies with police …

[PDF][PDF] Analysis of online conversations to detect cyberpredators using recurrent neural networks

J Kim, YJ Kim, M Behzadi, IG Harris - Proceedings for the First …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
We present an automated approach to analyze the text of an online conversation and
determine whether one of the participants is a cyberpredator who is preying on another …