Professional paper
ENTICEMENT OF CHILDREN FOR SATISFACTION OF SEXUAL NEEDS BY USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Dražen Škrtić
; Veleučilište u Karlovcu
Abstract
The criminal offense of sexual abuse of children - "grooming" at the beginning of the last decade is prescribed in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (UK). The Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of 2007 and the Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, prescribe the obligations of States Parties to the national legislation criminalized intentional act of adults who use ICT arranged a meeting with the child with the intention of participating in sexual activity with a child and production of child pornography, provided that an adult to take concrete measures for the realization of the meeting. The provisions of the Convention are partially implemented, in Article 161 - Enticement of children for satisfaction of sexual needs in the Croatian Criminal Code (2011). In this paper author analyzes the provisions of the Convention and the Directive, the differences between the provisions of the Convention and the Directive, comparative law and the extent of implementation of the provisions of the Convention in the Croatian Criminal Code (2011). The author also analysis commitments for the full implementation of the provisions of the Convention in the Croatian Criminal Code, the future obligations of implementation of the provisions of the Directive in the Croatian Criminal Code, and in that context, future changes of the Croatian Criminal Procedure Act.
Keywords
enticement; grooming; ICT; sexual child abuse; child pornography
Hrčak ID:
119419
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2013.
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