A pedofilia cibernética e os seus reflexos no âmbito jurídico brasileiro

Abstract

Amid the advances achieved over the decades, both in relation to the perception of children and adolescents as subjects of law, and with regard to technological advances, several points needed to be analyzed. Among them are the cybercrimes committed against these youngsters, who are extremely inserted in this virtual environment and, many times, without the proper supervision from their parents or guardians. This fact notably influences that innocent children and adolescents become victims of crimes such as virtual pedophilia and child pornography. Thus, this article aims to explain and study the main concepts related to this issue, such as the legal conceptions of these crimes, pedophilia as sexual perversion, the virtual environment and its lack of security, the responsibility of parents and guardians in these situations, among others. All this will contribute to identify in the Brazilian legal system the measures adopted by the legislator with the purpose of restraining these practices, besides analyzing what can and should still be done in order to prevent and punish these crimes. In relation to the methods chosen for the preparation of this work, the exploratory research and the procedural method aligned with the bibliographical research were used, since it was through the use of documents, academic works, legislation and jurisprudence and other resources that it was possible to describe and delimit the proposed theme.