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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

ition 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 matter 0 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. doi:10.10166a0.2008.08.001 (1997), who define modus operandi as 'the ac

viors with children, his motives as well as his previous work experience with children (Leclerc et al.. 2005: Sullivan & Beech, 2004). For example. Leclerc et al. (2005) found that the modus operandi of these offenders focus on spending a lot of time and being "overly touchy and affectionate with poten

c (2016). in addition to a thorough review of the grooming literature. The vignettes described grooming behaviors commonly used by child molesters (Berliner and Conte 1990; Campbell 2009; Christiansen and Blake 1990: Craven et al. 2006; Elliott et al. 1995: Lang and Frenzel 1988; Lanning 2010; Lecrelec

ter the child molester has acquired the trust of the child, they may gradually increase physical contact in order to desensitize the child to touch (Berliner and Conte 1990; Christiansen and Blake 1990; Leclerc et al. 2009; McAlinden 2006). The child molester escalates physical contact to prepare the chi

ss consists of a series of stages that the child molester progresses through as they groom the victim for the impending sexual abuse (Canning 2010; Leclerc, Prouty.. and Beauregard 2009; McAlinden 2006). It must be noted that, to date, there has yet to be a validated model of sexual grooming. It has bee

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

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, or exploiting

se: Research, Treatment, & Program Innovations for Victims, Survivors, do Offenders, 23(8), 957-976. https•J/doi.org/ 10.1080/10538712.2014.960632 Berliner, L., & Conte, J. R. (1990). The process of victimization: The victims perspective. Child Abuse & Neglect, 14(1), 29-40. https•1/doLorg/10.1016/0145-

, prior models describe a stage in which the offender works toward deceptively developing trust and cooperation with the child (Craven et aL, 2006; Leclerc et at, 2009; Olson et al., 2007). While some models incorporate a broad stage that refers to the overarching goal of trust development, others have