Peer-reviewed article
TYPES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
Nataliia Tylikina ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This review examines types of violence against children in online environments, including cyberbullying, grooming, and sexual abuse. The study identifies common risks children face online such as unwanted information, device interference, false information, bullying, threats, and contact with strangers. It highlights that adult ignorance and lack of safeguards contribute to these dangers, and notes that both victims and offenders experience negative mental health, physical health, and social consequences. The authors call for stronger legal frameworks and support systems to prevent online violence against children.
Key points
- Children most frequently use the internet for gaming, downloading information, and communication via messengers
- Most widespread online risks include imposing unnecessary information, interference with devices, spreading false information, bullying, threats, and communication with strangers
- Adult irresponsibility and ignorance of safe online practices is identified as a major factor enabling danger to children
- Both victims and offenders experience low self-esteem, poor mental and physical health, and difficulties with studying and peer communication
- Prevention requires not only support and case handling systems but also immediate legal action against cyberbullying and online sexual exploitation
Limitations
The document does not specify countries studied, sample sizes, or data collection methods. It provides no quantitative data on prevalence rates or effectiveness metrics for proposed prevention approaches.
Abstract
The level of access to Internet services of children and adolescents has been studied in the article. Children use Internet services the most frequently to play video- or computer games, or to download them; to download information for studying or entertainment, to communicate with the help of different messengers (Skype, iTalk, using a web-camera etc.). There have been studied different forms of violence, faced by children in the information and communication environment: cyber-bulling, grooming, sexual abuse (sexting) etc. There have been analyzed the risks, faced by children in the information and communication environment. It has been discovered that the most widespread are imposing of unnecessary information, interference with a digital device, spreading of false information about children and adolescents, bullying, threats, as well as communication with strangers, leading to unintended consequences. There have been identified pre-conditions and factors of emergence of cyber-bullying and other forms of violence with the use of information and communication technologies. One of the factors that children face a serious danger in the information environment is the irresponsibility of adults as well as their ignorance of the basic rules to provide a child with a safe online environment. There have been studied the most probable illegal actions, used by offenders towards children and adolescents in Internet. There have also been identified consequences for a victim of violence as well as for an offender with the use of information and communication technologies. The victim as well as the offender has low self-esteem, poor mental and physical health, issues with studying and peer communication. There have been suggested the ways to prevent violence against children with the use of information and communication technologies. One of the major objectives of reaction towards violence against children with the use of information and communication technologies has to be not only the creation of an effective system of support and handling of violence cases, but also immediate resolving of legal aspects of prevention and elimination of cyber-bullying and online sexual exploitation of children.