Lessons Learned: Creation and Testing of a New Instrument () for Measuring Sex Offenders' Perceptions of Their Grooming Behaviors.

Grooming is a process whereby an individual who plans to commit a sexual crime uses deception with the victim as well as the people in the environment (such as the victim's family members, the offender's family, etc.) so that the crime goes undetected. Despite the overwhelming presence of grooming in sexual crimes, there is a dearth of research on sex offenders' perceptions of their own grooming behaviors.