European Online Grooming Project

Sexual offenders' use of the internet

Jan 2011 |
Topic | Crime & Justice
Researcher | Multiple Researchers

Annual report

Findings from the project will be used to:

  • develop effective safety campaigns aimed at young people, parents and teachers
  • help the IT industry develop ways to keep their customers safe online
  • inform the risk assessment and treatment of offenders
  • improve policy making and law enforcement

Find out more

A number of reports have been written, available below:

You can also:

  • view slides from the launch of the final report here
  • view slides from the launch of the initial findings here
  • listen to an MP3 audio recording of the initial findings here

Funding of the project

The European Online Grooming Project is co-funded by the European Union, through the Safer Internet plus programme.

Timeline

Project timeline

Methods

Phase 1: Literature review, review of police case files and interviews with key stakeholders.

Phase 2: In-depth interviews with 33 male convicted offenders convicted in the UK, Belgium and Norway. Online groomers' chat-logs were sourced from Italy.

Phase 3: 12 focus groups with young people in the UK, Belgium and Italy. Seven dissemination events with teachers, parents and professionals in Belgium, Italy, Norway and the UK.

 

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Of interest:

Facebook wants to be one of the safest places on the internet...this research will help inform that.

Richard Allen - Director of European Public Policy @Facebook

The greatest challenge is a lack of good information, that is why this work is so interesting.

Laurent Masson - Director for Anti-Piracy and Cybercrime @Microsoft