Peer-reviewed article
OVERVIEW OF CRIMINOLOGY OF SEXSUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN
Eka Putri Novia Romadhin, Rangga Jayanuarto, Riri Tri Mayasari, Ahmad Dasan ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This criminology study examines factors contributing to sexual violence against children within family environments in Indonesia, specifically investigating cases at a correctional institution. The research uses interviews and legal documents to understand perpetrator motivations and whether criminal sanctions deter such crimes. Findings indicate that proximity between perpetrators and victims, combined with exploitation of coercion tactics such as threatening to expose victims' involvement in pornographic videos, creates conditions for abuse.
Key points
- Perpetrators of sexual violence against children in family settings exploited frequent unsupervised contact with victims
- Perpetrators used knowledge of victims' pornographic video involvement as a coercion and silencing mechanism
- The study examined whether criminal sanctions have a deterrent effect on perpetrators
Limitations
The document provides incomplete findings and does not clearly state conclusions regarding whether sanctions have deterrent effects. The qualitative study appears limited to a single correctional institution in Indonesia, and the excerpt does not provide sufficient detail on methodology, sample size, or comparative analysis to assess generalisability.
Abstract
This study aims to determine the factors that crimes of sexsual violence against children that occur in the family environtment and to find out wheather the sanctions given have a deterrent effect on the perpetrators. The theory used in this study is Criminology. This research method is through an empirical juridical approach, namely studying and seeing how laws and regulations are used in real life and studying how they affect human life. This type of research is descriptive qualitative in nature which is considered capable of providing a comprehensive picture of human experience consisting of primary legal data, namely interviews and secondary data, namely those collected from various sources such as articles, laws and regulations. Methods of data collection by interviews and literature study then the data were analyzed qualitatively. The results of research in the field perpetrators of sesual violence against children by brothers in law at Correctional Institution Class IIB Arga Makmur showed several findings discussed that first the perpetrators commited sexsual violence against children because of the frequent meetings between the victim and the perpetrator so that there was an opportunity to have intercourse, the two perpetrators knew that the victim often makes pornographic videos so that this is used as a threat to the perpetrator so that the victim does not report what happened to the authorities