Do Perverted Justice chat logs contain examples of Overt Persuasion and Sexual Extortion?:A research note responding to Chiang and Grant 2017 and 2018.

Abstract

Studies by Chiang and Grant (2017, 2018) on the rhetorical moves of online child sexual abusers suggest that interactions between offenders and adults posing as children differ in various ways from those between offenders and genuine child victims. They point specifically to the use by one offender of moves identified as Overt persuasion and Extortion in his interactions with real children noting that these were absent from data featuring adults posing as children. The current study in-vestigates whether these more coercive and forceful moves are in fact absent in sexualised inter-actions between offenders and adult decoys by applying corpus linguistic techniques to a corpus of 622 chat logs. It is shown that overtly persuasive language is rare in the texts, and that no extortion occurred. This finding support’s Chiang and Grant’s claim and their assertion that data featuring adult decoys is not truly representative of interactions between child victims and their abusers.

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College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics
Additional Information: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Child abuse, CSE, CSEA, grooming, sexual abuse, CMC, computer-mediated communication, IRC, moves.,Social Sciences(all),Linguistics and Language
Publication ISSN: 2183-3745
Last Modified: 15 Mar 2024 08:14
Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2018 08:05
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-07-01
Accepted Date: 2018-05-01
Authors: Schneevogt, Daniela
Chiang, Emily (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0216-1719)
Grant, Timothy D (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-5155-8413)

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