Episode Sixteen - The Paradox of Polite Online Grooming

However disturbing the thought online grooming of children and young people is, we reconcile ourselves that we know at least how these predators behave.They’ll manner their interactions down to a victim’s level. They’ll use age-appropriate language to seem accessible.They’ll draw upon the power dynamic of age.Right?Through a new piece of research by Beata Pienczykowski & Pauline Madella called "I was so Afraid All You Wanted from Me Was Sex’: A Corpus Assisted Study in the Pragmatics of Manipulation in Online Child Sexual Groomers" we see how online perpetrators flip this script entirely. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-025-00218-0How victims are manipulated to believe they are the ones with all the power and that what is abuse, is in fact a relationship of equals.To contact A Perspective on Crime, follow the link belowhttps://linktr.ee/APerspectiveOnCrime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.