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in Christiansen & Blake, 1990). Many fathers also show clear signs of favoritism toward their victimized daughter relative to their other children. Burgess and Holmstrom (1980) wrote that molesters tend to use three types of pressure to make their victims compliant: material goods, misrepresentation of

ney to the child, 9% provided the child with illicit goods, and 4% provided the child with games or toys. In their interviews with 23 CSA victims, Berliner and Conte (1990) found that many children shared similar experiences with bribery and coercion prior to their abuse. Sixty-one percent of children

d from littp://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A 3502-013 Page 18 of 21 EFTA_00001430 EFTA00156771 Grooming in Child Sexual Abuse 975 Berliner, L., & Conte, J. R. (1990). The process of victimization: The victims' perspective. Child Abuse and Attlee!, 14, 29-40. Berson, I. R. (2003). Groom

ositions that provide access to children (e.g., Catholic Church, Boy Scouts of America, schools, foster care, sports teams, babysitting; Lanning and Burgess 1984; Leclerc and Felson 2016; McAlinden 2006; Sullivan and Beech, 2002) thus circumventing the need to gain access to or groom the child's family,

a model of sexual grooming that has some support for its validity. While there had been numerous previous models of sexual grooming proposed (i.e., Berliner and Conte 1990; Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist 2007; Harms and Dam 1992; Lanning 2010; Leclerc, Proulx, and Beauregard 2009; McAlinden 2006; Olson et

mith 1989; Elliott, Browne, and 3502-034 Page 3 of 13 EFIA_00001687 EFTA00157028 G. M. WINTERS ET AL. Kilcoyne 1995) and victims of CSA (e.g., Berliner and Conte 1990). While these reviews and empirical studies provide vital information, there is still great variation within the field on how to defi

hat perpetrators display in the periods prior to, during, and following illicit sexual contact' (p. 18). Another definition is provided by Douglas. Burgess, Burgess and Ressler • Corresponding author. Tel.: •61 7 3735 5823. &mod address: hleclerctegriffithAduau (B, Leclerc). 1359-1789/S - see front ma

scuptive research on the modus operandi of sexual offenders against children Study Sample characteristics n Modus operandi statelD investigated Berliner and Conte (1990) Child victims of sexual 23 abuse reavited from the Sexual ASSaUlt Center in Seattle (USA) Incarcerated adult 72 offenders (U

, Wolf. & Smith, 1989: Lang & Frenzel, 1988 ) (see Table 1). These studies were mainly undertaken to provide information for prevention purposes.As Berliner and Conte (1990) pointed out: "Much current prevention knowledge is based on anecdotal information about the victimization process. Understanding t

in Christiansen & Blake, 1990). Many fathers also show clear signs of favoritism toward their victimized daughter relative to their other children. Burgess and Holmstrom (1980) wrote that molesters tend to use three types of pressure to make their victims compliant: material goods, misrepresentation of

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