CRIME, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
QUIZ 2 WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2025 UPDATE
NCMEC - ANS National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
CSAM - ANS Child Sexual Abuse Material
What are the steps in grooming? - ANS 1. Share interests/establish rapport
2. establish trust
3. share secrets
4. break down barriers
5. Threats
6. Exploitation/face-to- face meeting
7. maintenance
Grooming - ANS The befriending and establishment of an emotional connection with a child to
lower the child's inhibitions in order to make sexual contact
Share interests/establish rapport - ANS Predator lures target by appealing to their interests
- 1st step
Establish trust - ANS - builds trust by appearing interested in EVERYTHING
- becomes close friend and confidant
- 2nd step
Share secrets - ANS - discourage inclusion of others because they "wouldn't understand"
- Advances process of isolation of victim
- 3rd step
Break down barriers - ANS - takes advantage of youth's natural curiosity by slowly introducing
them to sexual content
- predator exposes victim to topics or pictures that are uncomfortable (desensitize)
- Victim is encouraged to think sex between child and adult is ok or even beneficial
- 4th step
Threats - ANS - predator may resort to threats if they fell child pulling away or hesitant to meet
- may threaten to expose relationship to parents or others
- fear of repercussion allows offender to regain control
- 5th step
Exploitation and/or face-to-face meeting - ANS - online exploitation such as self-production of
CSAM
, - OR face-to-face meeting
- whether consensual or not, child is still victim
- violent contact offenses by internet predators are rare
- 6th step
Maintenance - ANS - grooming is a cyclical process
- to continue to exploit, offender must continue to groom and reinforce relationship
Grooming persuasion techniques - ANS - Authority
- Social proof
- Reciprocity
- Commitment/ Consistency
- Scarcity
Authority - ANS automatic trust in authority
- a persuasion technique
Social proof - ANS cue processing, helps us understand who we should accept
- a persuasion technique
Reciprocity - ANS obligation to pay someone back
- a persuasion technique
Commitment/consistency - ANS positive quality that makes someone seem trustworthy
- a persuasion technique
Scarcity - ANS increased value of someone/thing we might lose
- a persuasion technique
Broad themes of grooming - ANS - Rapport building
- Sexual Content
- Assessment of Receptiveness
Rapport building - ANS - development of trust/friendship
- giving of gifts (can be in-person or virtual)
- broad theme of grooming
Sexual content - ANS - desensitization through sharing of sexual content, often pornography
- broad theme of grooming
Assessment of receptiveness - ANS - offenders are acutely aware of vulnerability
- searching for path of least resistance
- broad theme of grooming
Online solicitation - ANS intentionally or knowingly communicating certain sexual content to a
minor, or trying to induce or 'solicit' a minor to perform a sexual act
QUIZ 2 WITH QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT SOLUTIONS 2025 UPDATE
NCMEC - ANS National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
CSAM - ANS Child Sexual Abuse Material
What are the steps in grooming? - ANS 1. Share interests/establish rapport
2. establish trust
3. share secrets
4. break down barriers
5. Threats
6. Exploitation/face-to- face meeting
7. maintenance
Grooming - ANS The befriending and establishment of an emotional connection with a child to
lower the child's inhibitions in order to make sexual contact
Share interests/establish rapport - ANS Predator lures target by appealing to their interests
- 1st step
Establish trust - ANS - builds trust by appearing interested in EVERYTHING
- becomes close friend and confidant
- 2nd step
Share secrets - ANS - discourage inclusion of others because they "wouldn't understand"
- Advances process of isolation of victim
- 3rd step
Break down barriers - ANS - takes advantage of youth's natural curiosity by slowly introducing
them to sexual content
- predator exposes victim to topics or pictures that are uncomfortable (desensitize)
- Victim is encouraged to think sex between child and adult is ok or even beneficial
- 4th step
Threats - ANS - predator may resort to threats if they fell child pulling away or hesitant to meet
- may threaten to expose relationship to parents or others
- fear of repercussion allows offender to regain control
- 5th step
Exploitation and/or face-to-face meeting - ANS - online exploitation such as self-production of
CSAM
, - OR face-to-face meeting
- whether consensual or not, child is still victim
- violent contact offenses by internet predators are rare
- 6th step
Maintenance - ANS - grooming is a cyclical process
- to continue to exploit, offender must continue to groom and reinforce relationship
Grooming persuasion techniques - ANS - Authority
- Social proof
- Reciprocity
- Commitment/ Consistency
- Scarcity
Authority - ANS automatic trust in authority
- a persuasion technique
Social proof - ANS cue processing, helps us understand who we should accept
- a persuasion technique
Reciprocity - ANS obligation to pay someone back
- a persuasion technique
Commitment/consistency - ANS positive quality that makes someone seem trustworthy
- a persuasion technique
Scarcity - ANS increased value of someone/thing we might lose
- a persuasion technique
Broad themes of grooming - ANS - Rapport building
- Sexual Content
- Assessment of Receptiveness
Rapport building - ANS - development of trust/friendship
- giving of gifts (can be in-person or virtual)
- broad theme of grooming
Sexual content - ANS - desensitization through sharing of sexual content, often pornography
- broad theme of grooming
Assessment of receptiveness - ANS - offenders are acutely aware of vulnerability
- searching for path of least resistance
- broad theme of grooming
Online solicitation - ANS intentionally or knowingly communicating certain sexual content to a
minor, or trying to induce or 'solicit' a minor to perform a sexual act
