id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_xnwnf3ocxfa4po7swgxhamki4q Tom Sorell Online Grooming and Preventive Justice 2016 20 .pdf application/pdf 10869 570 55 In England and Wales, Section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act (2003) criminalizes the act of meeting a Offences Act (2003) criminalizes the act of meeting a child –someone under 16—after grooming. reasons why the approach to grooming in section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act in particular is early in the typical stages of the process leading from the online grooming of a child to sexual assault? If there were an offence of sexualizing an online conversation, then that would criminalize a step in the process leading to a sexual assault that occurred earlier than meeting a child after grooming. Would the fictitious offence of sexualizing an online conversation with a child be justified, then, if On balance, however, the case for a preparatory offence of sexualization of online conversation does Section 15 of the Sexual Offences Act (2003) seems to survive general objections to preparatory ./cache/work_xnwnf3ocxfa4po7swgxhamki4q.pdf ./txt/work_xnwnf3ocxfa4po7swgxhamki4q.txt