Hub
The CESAGRAM Knowledge Hub is created in order to promote the project’s outcomes, raise awareness on Child Sexual Abuse and contribute to the building of expertise. It is designed including, amongst others, a resource library and list of organizations with relevant expertise. The development of the CESAGRAM Knowledge hub aims at building a network of expertise, share opinion pieces and blogs, inform and be informed on events and opportunities in the sector, but also promote the CESAGRAM’s results and encourage further collaborative working.
- A Nuanced Investigation of Adolescents’ Online Sexual Risk Experience
- Identifying child abuse through text mining and machine learning
- An Intelligent Online Grooming Detection System Using AI Technologies
- Grooming Detection, part 1. How to detect grooming in chat data?
- Advancing child sexual abuse investigations using biometrics and social network analysis
- Combating Cyberviolence against Women and GirlsChild sexual abuse material networks on the darkweb: a multi-method approach
- Online Grooming as a Manipulative Social Interaction: Insights from Textual Analysis
- The Internet – Investigation Report
- Technology-assisted child sexual abuse
- ‘Working to reduce child sexual abuse: The perspectives of social workers in an Irish context’
- The Language of Online Child Sexual Groomers-A Corpus Assisted Discourse Study of Intentions, Requests and Grooming Duration
- Detection of cyber grooming during an online conversation
- Gen Z and Millennials Accept Online Creeping and Stalking as Part of Dating Culture
- Developing a Protective – Preventive and Machine Learning Based Model on Child Abuse
- Machine learning to detect online grooming
- Determining Child Sexual Abuse Posts based on Artificial Intelligence
- Identifying Online Child Sexual Texts in Dark Web through Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms
- Analysing Child Sexual Abuse Activities in the Dark Web based on an Efficient CSAM Detection Algorithm
- Impact of Police Cuts on Missing Person Investigations. (Centre for the Study of Missing Persons) University of Portsmouth
- People Who Go Missing Abroad: An Examination of Patterns and Investigative Challenges. International Crime Coordination Centre
- Examining offender, victim and offence characteristics in cases of stranger child abduction: an exploratory comparison of attempted and completed cases using publicly available data from the UK
- Report: IWF research into how artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to create child sexual abuse imagery online
- Child safety online
- Global strategic response
- What works to prevent violence against children online
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10538712.2024.2356194
- WeProtect Global Alliance’s Model National Response provides a framework for countries and organisations to support them to tackle child sexual exploitation and abuse online
- WeProtect Global Alliance’s Sextortion web page provides a hub of information and resources exploring the issue and responses to this rising crime
- Global Threat Assessment 2023 assesses and tracks the changing scale and nature of child sexual abuse and exploitation online in order to inform and direct the global response
- Huikuri, S. (2023). Users of online child sexual abuse material. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38, 904–913. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-023-09611-4
- Gannon, C., Blokland, A. A. J., Huikuri, S., et al. (2023). Child sexual abuse material on the darknet. Forensic Psychiatry, Psychology and Criminal Law, 17, 353–365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11757-023-00790-8
- Hirschtritt, M. E., Tucker, D., & Binder, R. L. (2019). Risk assessment of online child sexual exploitation offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, 47(2), 155–164. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30988020/
- Taylor, H. (2017). Online sexual grooming: The role of offender motivation and grooming strategies [Doctoral thesis, University of Birmingham]. University of Birmingham eTheses Repository. https://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/7896/
- Schoeps, K., Peris-Hernández, M., Garaigordobil, M., & Montoya-Castilla, I. (2020). Risk factors for being a victim of online grooming in adolescents. Psicothema, 32(1). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31954411/
- Joleby, M., Lunde, C., Landström, S., & Jonsson, L. S. (2021). Offender strategies for engaging children in online sexual activity. Child Abuse & Neglect, 120, 105214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105214
- Wefers, S., Dieseth, T., George, E., Øverland, I., Jolapara, J., McAree, C., & Findlater, D. (2024). Understanding and deterring online child grooming: A qualitative study. The Lucy Faithfull Foundation; Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), Anglia Ruskin University. https://clok.uclan.ac.uk/50786/1/13147-Article-115395-1-10-20240215.pdf
HEROES
The number of people, including children, falling victim to human trafficking and child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSA/CSE) around the world continues to grow, despite increased international attention and resources. In Europe, sexually exploited women and girls make up the majority of human trafficking victims. Moreover, assistance to victims is often limited by the lack of coordination among stakeholders. In this context, the EU-funded HEROES project will explore how to use the latest technological advances and new strategies to prevent and combat CSA/CSE and human trafficking, investe the crimes and better protect victims. It will develop an ambitious, interdisciplinary, international and victim-centred approach. Its aim is to establish a coordinated contribution with law enforcement agencies to address the specific needs of victims and provide protection. To achieve its main goal, the HEROES project’s strategies and solutions, focus on three fundamental pillars to fight against THB and CSA/CSE crimes: Prevention, Investigation and Victim Assistance.
Find more information here.
EITHOS
EITHOS Project has been created in response to the boom of Online Identity Theft (OIDT). The observatory will contribute to the prevention, detection, and mitigation of OIDT-related crime and act as a common platform for OIDT information and intelligence in Europe.
EITHOS empowers European citizens, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs), and policy makers in the fight and prevention against Online Identity Theft related crime. Through targeted awareness campaigns and innovative engagement activities, EITHOS aims to raise public awareness about Online Identity Theft and associated risks and societal impact. The website acts as a hub centralising key information and various materials on OIDT and related trends.
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2PS
Prevent and Protect through Support (2PS) is an EU funded project (2022-2025) that brings prevention to the forefront aiming to prevent harm to children before it occurs. 2PS is offering a paradigm shift in the approach to tackling child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) across Europe. This project will lead to better understanding what leads to harmful behavior, informing and educating people who fear they might offend against children about the support services and rehabilitation options they have and sharing the best practices for guidance, therapy and treatment methods with important stakeholders.
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ALUNA
ALUNA project proposes an innovative, ambitious, interdisciplinary, international child-protection-centered approach to fight against CSA/CSE crimes. ALUNA focuses on the three main components (Prevention, Investigation, and Victim Assistance) to establish a coordinated contribution with law enforcement agencies (LEAs) by developing an appropriate approach that is capable of addressing specific needs and providing protection to childhood. The ALUNA project’s main objective is to use technology to improve the way in which help and support can be provided to victims of CSA/CSE. Moreover, the ALUNA project will establish new innovative strategies that in the short, medium, and long term will improve the way in which LEAs and civil society organisations (CSOs) carry out criminal investigations, assist rescued victims, and prevent the occurrence of these crimes.
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ASIT
ASIT responds to the growing concerns about new forms of trafficking in human beings (THB) within the framework of the EU Strategy on Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings. ASIT goal is to identify gaps and mechanisms in THB, focusing on networks, potential victim profiles, and digital instruments used by traffickers. The project’s objectives are to:
-Enhance the capacity of Law Enforcement Agencies in multi-evidence source investigations of THB.
-Raise awareness about the risks and models of THB and related exploitation.
-Foster multi-agency partnerships through networking, information exchange, and joint investigation operations at national and international levels.
-Develop and improve digital tools to map online channels used by traffickers.
-Provide methodologies and protocols to enhance victim support and reduce re-victimization risks.
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CSAPE
CSAPE is funded by the EU’s Internal Security Fund (ISF). It is a two-year (2022-2024) project that is conducted in collaboration with five European countries. Save the Children Finland is the coordinator of the project, and participants are Iceland (Barnaheill – Save the Children Island), Albania (Save the Children Albania), Bosnia-Herzegovina (Save the Children International, implementing department Save the Children North Western Balkan), and Greece (KMOP, Social Action and Innovation Centre).
Learn more about CSAPE here
POLIIICE
POLIIICE vision is to advance European LEAs to a novel lawful-interception, investigation and intelligence era in which they will be able to effectively prevent, detect and investigate crime and terrorism amid the new age of communication (5G&Beyond, end-to-end encrypted communication and Quantum based encryption).
POLIIICE is designed for ensuring the cost-effectiveness, security and integrity of the new age LI and will provide the legal and ethical framework for each of its measures while strictly complying with privacy preserving and ethics rules of operation. POLIIICE will contribute to the LI standardization and will recommend EU regulation changes for effective adaptation of POLIIICE vision and innovative LI measures.
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ICMEC has online training resources for families for online child sexual abuse and exploitation, which include
- Education for Families
- Education in schools
- Frontline training program with ECPAT & UNODC called Agents of Change
- Online platform –sharing experiences
- Survivor’s voices
- Online safety education
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