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DJECA KAO ŽRTVE NASILJA
CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE

Author(s): Ognjen Sredojević
Subject(s): Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Family and social welfare, Victimology, Social Norms / Social Control
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: prevention; violence; children; Internet; security incidents;

Summary/Abstract: Violence against children, as one of the forms of social deviations, has always been present and accompanied humanity throughout the history of its development, until today... Bearing in mind that today humanity lives in a new modern age, the age of digitization, forms of violence against children have also experienced certain changes. Precisely for these reasons, it can be said with certainty that new forms of social deviations have appeared and are present, including, among other things, violence against children. It should be noted that the arrival of new information and communication technologies (ICT) caused a digital revolution and led to the general term „ Masscommunication “. Such use of the Internet as the largest global network in the history of mankind, and representing the most powerful medium available to everyone, had a great impact on the perception of children as victims of various forms of violence. Also, the Internet has made available to humanity various forms of prevention, referring primarily to international conventions and protocols, then also forms of stopping violence against children, both locally, nationally, and globally, i.e. international plan, and all with the aim of suppressing this form of social deviations. It is important to note that in the era of universal digitization, cooperation (exchange of information, data processing...) of all subjects at the local, national and global levels has been greatly improved, i.e. international plan, which are involved in the prevention and suppression of violence against children. Also, global digitization has improved police cooperation between countries, through international police organizations, i.e. Europol and Interpol, regarding the prosecution of both individual perpetrators and organized criminal groups who have committed or are committing various forms of violence against children. In the era of electronic digitization, including the websites of official media companies, then social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, also represent an „inexhaustible source “that can be used to collect quality information, both about the current state of the environment, as well as in specific countries, all with regard to the prevention and suppression of violence against children. In this regard, this work should point out the basic forms of violence against children in today's „modern “and „digital “time, which represents the ubiquitous social but also certainly global, international problem.

  • Issue Year: VII/2022
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 654-661
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian