European Online Grooming Project
Sexual offenders' use of the internet
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:
- Complete final report
- Executive summary of the final report
- Summary of initial findings
- Annual report
- Scoping report
- Literature review
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
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.
You can:
Of interest:
Facebook wants to be one of the safest places on the internet...this research will help inform that.
The greatest challenge is a lack of good information, that is why this work is so interesting.
- ScotCen Social Research
- 73 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9AW
- Charity no. SC038454
- info@scotcen.org.uk
