Background

Perpetrators of technology-assisted abuse use an abundance of strategies to manipulate and sexually abuse children online, however victim resistance during and post abuse has yet to be explored in detail.

Objective

This study aimed to explore the strategies perpetrators use to overcome direct victim resistance and the strategies victims use to resist perpetrators' demands.

Participants and setting

The sample was recruited through Childline, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP). This consisted of 10 semi-structured interview transcripts of 1 male and 9 female victims of technology-assisted sexual abuse, who were aged between 9 and 15 years old at the time of the abuse (M = 13.09, SD = 2.0).

Method

This study qualitatively analysed secondary data collected by Hamilton-Giachritsis et al. (2020). The interview transcripts were analysed using a thematic analysis.

Results

The thematic map consisted of two key themes and six sub-themes. Results identified how all perpetrators appeared to adapt their strategies of overcoming victim resistance using a variety of approaches. These ranged from isolating victims and depriving them of sleep, to more extreme approaches such as threats to share sexual images of the victims. Victims also used a range of strategies to resist and de-escalate the abuse, such as feigning ignorance and complying with some but not all requests.

Conclusions

This study identified the key strategies used by offenders to overcome victim resistance, and the strategies young people used to resist, de-escalate and end the abuse.

中文翻译：

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罪犯在技术辅助儿童性虐待中克服受害者抵抗的方法

背景

技术辅助虐待的肇事者使用大量策略在网上操纵和性虐待儿童，但受害者在虐待期间和虐待后的抵抗力尚未得到详细探讨。

客观的

本研究旨在探讨施暴者用来克服受害人直接抵抗的策略，以及受害人用来抵制施暴者要求的策略。

参与者和设置

该样本是通过儿童热线、国家防止虐待儿童协会 (NSPCC) 和儿童剥削和在线保护中心 (CEOP) 招募的。这包括 10 份半结构化访谈记录，内容涉及技术辅助性虐待的 1 名男性和 9 名女性受害者，他们在受虐待时年龄在 9 至 15 岁之间（M = 13.09，SD = 2.0）。

方法

本研究定性分析了 Hamilton-Giachritsis 等人收集的二手数据。（2020）。使用主题分析法对访谈记录进行了分析。

结果

专题地图由两个关键主题和六个子主题组成。结果确定了所有肇事者似乎如何使用各种方法调整他们克服受害者抵抗的策略。这些措施包括隔离受害者和剥夺他们的睡眠，以及更极端的方法，例如威胁分享受害者的性图像。受害者还使用了一系列策略来抵制和缓和虐待，例如假装不知​​道和遵守一些但不是所有的要求。

结论

这项研究确定了罪犯用来克服受害者抵抗的关键策略，以及年轻人用来抵抗、缓和和结束虐待的策略。