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This book is concerned with white-collar offenders online who victimize individuals and organizations by financial crime. A very different offender category online is sex groomers who attract victims for sexual abuse (Aljuboori et al. in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Publised Online, 2021). While very different, this offender group is of interest because we know much more about them than we know about white-collar offenders online (Hamerton in Journal of Law and Criminal Justice 8:67–79, 2020).

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    Petter Gottschalk

  2. Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Christopher Hamerton

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Gottschalk, P., Hamerton, C. (2022). Online Grooming. In: White-Collar Crime Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82132-6_9

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