Review article
https://doi.org/10.31299/ksi.29.2.2
Use of modern technologies as risk for online-facilitated sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents
Ana Raguž
orcid.org/0000-0002-2156-6260
; Child and Youth Protection Center of Zagreb
Gordana Buljan Flander
; Child and Youth Protection Center of Zagreb
Vlatka Boričević Maršanić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1437-9942
; Child and Youth Protection Center of Zagreb
Abstract
The development of technology in the last twenty years has undoubtedly changed our way of life and thus the way children and young people grow up. Internet has become an integral part of everyday life activities. In this paper, risky online activities will be considered through various concepts: sexting, as an exchange of sexual content, sexual extortion of children (also called sextortion) as extortion of sexual content, and grooming process. All risks will be analyzed in detail in the context of online-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation through interrelationships between these concepts, consequences for mental health as well as the role of professionals from a multicultural perspective. Both the growing advancement of modern technologies and opportunities it brings, especially during the pandemic, are fertile ground for serious threats to mental health of children and youth. This also means that all those involved in child and youth protection need to create and develop new child protection systems.
Keywords
online-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation; online risk sexual behaviour; mental health; pandemic; professionals
Hrčak ID:
269311
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2021.
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