[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Sexual Online Grooming of Children

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*** Call for Chapters: Sexual Online Grooming of Children. Challenges 
for Science and Practice ***

Edited by Daniela Stelzmann (Institute for Media and Communication 
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Dr. Laura F. Kuhle 
(Institute for Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité - 
Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)

We are currently seeking chapter submissions for an edited volume 
regarding “Sexual Online Grooming of Children. Challenges for Science 
and Practice”.

Sexual online grooming of children represents the relocation of child 
sexual abuse into digital space. The book describes the phenomenon of 
sexual online grooming (SOG) of children comprehensively and in detail. 
The chapters focus on the presentation of the phenomenon, descriptions 
of the perpetrators and victims in the form of empirical results and 
case studies, possibilities and obstacles of criminal prosecution and 
the corresponding derivations for science and practice.

*** Topics for chapters may include but are not limited to: ***

-              Definition and characteristics of the phenomenon SOG

-              (Cross-)National prevalence of SOG (offender perspective)

-              (Cross-)National prevalence of victimization by SOG 
(victim perspective)

-              Offender strategies

-              Risk factors and characteristics of SOG-offenders

-              Differentiation between “fantasy- and contact-driven” 
offenders

-              Differentiation between online and offline offenders of 
child sexual abuse

-              Vulnerabilities of victims of SOG

-              Descriptions of virtual environments (e.g. Instagram, 
Snapchat, Facebook, etc.)

-              Possibilities and limitations of prosecution

-              Influence of legal situation and culpability

-              Victim blaming

-              …

-              Your own suggested idea

*** Submission details: ***

We would like to invite extended abstracts (a maximum of 500 words), 
accompanied by a short biographical statement, until October 31th, 2019. 
Please address proposals and/or any inquiries to Daniela Stelzmann 
((Daniela.Stelzmann /at/ fu-berlin.de)) and Dr. Laura F. Kuhle 
((Laura.Kuhle /at/ charite.de)). Submission implies a commitment to publish in 
this volume if your work is selected for inclusion. Your submissions 
will be reviewed until November 15, 2019. Accepted contributors will be 
asked to submit their full chapters (max. 35.000 characters) by March 
31th, 2020. The volume is intended for publication with NOMOS.

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