ABSTRACT

The online solicitation of youth has been established as an unintended consequence of the connectedness afforded individuals through computer-mediated conversation. Information systems research focused on the behavioural patterns of online solicitors of youth is scant and lacks a strong theoretical foundation. We address this gap through an evolved grounded theory analysis of 90 Perverted Justice transcripts to extract the behavioural patterns that emerge when online solicitors use instant messaging to enact behaviours of grooming, predation, offending, and control. The aims of the research are: (1) delineate between grooming behaviour, predatory behaviour, and offending behaviour; (2) differentiate between passive and controlling solicitor language; (3) disentangle these behaviours from what the technology permits; (4) extend the current understanding of cybersexual abuse to show grooming as only one aspect of a phenomenon that also includes predation and offence; and (5) identify how these results are important for academics and software developers.

摘要

年轻人的在线征集已被确定为通过计算机介导的对话为个人提供联系的意外结果。关注青少年网络律师行为模式的信息系统研究较少，缺乏坚实的理论基础。我们通过对 90 份 Perverted Justice 抄本的进化扎根理论分析来解决这一差距，以提取在线律师使用即时消息来制定修饰、掠夺、冒犯和控制行为时出现的行为模式。研究的目的是：（1）区分梳理行为、掠夺行为和冒犯行为；(2) 区分被动和控制性律师语言；(3) 将这些行为与技术允许的范围分开；(4) 扩展目前对网络性虐待的理解，将修饰仅作为一种现象的一个方面，还包括掠夺和冒犯；(5) 确定这些结果对学者和软件开发人员的重要性。