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Episode 93. Online Grooming with Eden Kamar

In episode 93, we feature Dr. Eden Kamar, who speaks with us about cybercrime, specifically the online grooming of children.


Dr. Eden Kamar is a postgraduate in the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. in criminology specializing in cybercrime and cybersecurity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her MPhil in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research focuses on cybercrime and cybersecurity, namely, technology-facilitated sexual abuse of minors, phishing attacks, illicit markets, malicious codes, and information system vulnerabilities.

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Screenshot During the Podcast Recording – January 29, 2024

Get in touch with Eden:
Georgia State University website // ekamar AT gsu.edu

These are the works authored by Eden and her colleagues that were discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:

Kamar, E., Maimon, D., Weisburd, D., & Shabat, D. (2022). Parental guardianship and online sexual grooming of teenagers: A honeypot experiment. Computers in Human Behavior137, 107386.. [article link]

Kamar, E., Maimon, D., Weisburd, D., & Shabat, D. (2023). The Relevance of Targets’ Sexual Knowledge in the Progression of Online Sexual Grooming Events: Findings from an Online Field Experiment. Justice Quarterly, 1-21. [article link]

Kamar, E. & Howell, C.J. Online predators target children’s webcams, study finds. The Conversation (2023). [article link]

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