"This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex - henceforth, online grooming - as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter"--

Series Preface; 1 Introduction; 2. Online Grooming as Manipulation Discourse: Concept and Method; 3. Online Grooming as Language Action; 4. Power in Online Grooming Discourse; 5. Dismantling Agent/Victim Dichotomies: Children's Discourse during Online Grooming; 6. Conclusion: Applications of Research; References.