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nter, Hughes, and Kirby 1998). Grooming refers to the behaviors that an offender employs in preparation for committing sexual abuse against a child (McAlinden 2006). While several definitions of grooming have been suggested, one of the most specific and comprehensive explanations was proposed by Craven, B

ll team, with one of the players being an 8-year-old child named Robbie. The vignettes were created with reference to the vignettes from Winters and Jeglic (2016). in addition to a thorough review of the grooming literature. The vignettes described grooming behaviors commonly used by child molesters (B

5; Kierkegaard 2008; Lanning 2018; Salter 1995). Research on sexual grooming started to proliferate in the 2000s (Craven, Brown, and Gilchrist 2006; McAlinden 2007), but it was not until 2011 following the arrest of Pennsylvania State University assistant football coach, Jerry Sandusky, for numerous count

propose a new definition based on this critique, and further informed by a model of sexual grooming which has established content validity (Winters, Jeglic, and Kaylor 2020). The complexities of sexual grooming Experts agree that sexual grooming has been deemed a significant component of the cycle of C

d specific behaviors that are involved in the process. Sexual grooming Sexual grooming has become synonymous with CSA in the past several decades (McAlinden, 2013). The goals of grooming are to gain initial coopera- tion of the victim, decrease the likelihood of discovery, and increase the likelihood of

LD SEXUAL ABUSE @ S after they learn an individual has committed a sexual offense (Winters & Jeglic, 2016). Importantly, in one study, Winters and Jeglic (2017) found that the general public has trouble identifying potentially predatory sexual grooming behaviors. Given the difficulty in identifying s