Dietz: o Whether grooming occurred, not hinging on credibility of individuals. Wide qualitative studies describing similar tactics and MOs • The Duron article talks explicitly about dynamics of coercive control across multiple types of victimization. Nothing about coercive control requires the perp

uences • Third parties: mostly clinical literature, but grooming literature shows perpetrators try to use third parties to normalize situation • Duron article lays foundation for a discussion of coercive control • Delayed disclosure: o Betrayal trauma literature: abuse by a close other. Establish

s intention, but context matters. Grooming is not a single act, it's a series of behaviors • Described articles o "Observing Coercive Control" by Duron, Johnson, et al. o 2009 study by Leclerc, et al. o "Toward a Universal Definition of Childhood Grooming" in June 2021 in Deviant Behavior by Winte