Peer-reviewed article
Criminological Analysis of Sexual Violence against Children in Mamasa
Jhon Franklin Pasande, Sunardi Purwanda, Muhammad Sabir, Bakhtiar Tijjang, Kairuddin Kairuddin ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examines sexual violence against children in Mamasa Regency, Indonesia, from a criminological perspective. It identifies low education, poverty, and environmental factors as key causes of child sexual abuse. The research discusses legal frameworks and penalties for perpetrators, and recommends a three-level prevention approach: preemptive measures to stop crimes before they occur, preventive enforcement by authorities, and rehabilitation of convicted offenders to enable reintegration into communities.
Key points
- Low levels of education, poverty, and environmental factors are identified as major causes of child sexual abuse in Mamasa
- The study examines applicable legal norms and criminal penalties for perpetrators of child sexual intercourse
- Three prevention strategies are recommended: preemptive prevention, preventive enforcement by authorized officers, and repressive measures for offender rehabilitation
- The research uses both primary and secondary legal materials in a sociological empirical approach
Limitations
The document does not provide empirical data, statistics on prevalence, victim outcomes, or evidence of intervention effectiveness. It is unclear whether this study involved primary data collection or is primarily a legal and theoretical analysis.
Abstract
This study aims to observe and pay attention to the applicable legal norms in relation to the facts regarding the application of criminal penalties for perpetrators of child sexual intercourse in Mamasa, This study uses a sociological or empirical approach in Mamasa Regency. Types and sources of legal materials use primary and secondary legal materials, The factors causing the crime of sexual intercourse with children in Mamasa are low levels of education, the economy in this case poverty and environmental factors that can have major influences on a person's treatment. To prevent sexual intercourse with children, preventive efforts are needed such as preemptive, namely prevention so that the crime does not occur, then preventive efforts, namely action taken by authorized officers in accordance with laws and regulations, and repressive efforts, namely efforts to return perpetrators of crimes to further return perpetrators who have served their sentences to be able to return to community life.