RT Article
T1 Sexual Grooming Behaviors of Females Who Perpetrate Child Sexual Abuse
JF Victims & offenders
VO 20
IS 7
SP 1374
OP 1398
A1 Winters, Georgia M.
A1 Jeglic, Elizabeth L.
A1 Kaylor, Leah E.
A2 Jeglic, Elizabeth L.
A2 Kaylor, Leah E.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938840453
AB It has been proposed that females who commit child sexual offenses engage in sexual grooming similar to their male counterparts. The present study examined sexual grooming by females who committed child sexual abuse (CSA) as reported by adult survivors. A sample of 96 adults who experienced CSA perpetrated by a female completed a survey regarding their experiences of sexual grooming behaviors based on a content-validated model (Sexual Grooming Model; SGM). Overall, all participants endorsed having experienced at least one sexual grooming behavior in the SGM, with an average of 16 (range = 3–34) behaviors reported out of a possible 42. The vast majority (86–99%) of participants endorsed at least one behavior from each of the five SGM stages, and the most common behaviors were identified for each stage. These findings suggest that females who perpetrate CSA indeed engage in sexual grooming behaviors during the offense process.
K1 Prevention
K1 Female
K1 Adolescent
K1 sexual grooming
K1 Sexual Abuse
DO 10.1080/15564886.2024.2329098