Examining the strategies to support victims of sexual cybercrimes by document review and Delphi analysis

Aboodi, Hajar; Salarifar, Abuzar; Sayebani, Ali Reza

doi:10.22075/ijnaa.2024.34582.5170

Examining the strategies to support victims of sexual cybercrimes by document review and Delphi analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Hajar Aboodi

Abuzar Salarifar

Ali Reza Sayebani

Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

10.22075/ijnaa.2024.34582.5170

Abstract

With the spread of cyber space and the availability of this technology to everyone and the emergence of aspects of criminal law in it, the need to support the victims of this space became important and necessary. In analyzing its main purpose, this research has criticized and analyzed this issue by using the analytical method, using the opinions of the panel of experts without bias and interfering with the author's personal opinions and with a realistic attitude, and the criminal protection solutions for the victims of sexual crimes in the cyber environment have been discussed with the focus on criminal proceedings, and the topics discussed have been centered around the answer to this basic question, which basically the domestic criminal law, in terms of the criminal proceedings process, has considered what solutions to support the cyberspace sexual victims. The results and findings of the research confirm that the criminal procedure has provided special protections to the victims of sexual crimes, including sex tourism, sex trafficking, pedophilia crimes, sexual abuse, and the like in cyberspace, which examples of it can be considered, including the solutions of the assignment of special judges, the capture lawyer, transnational judicial cooperation, the possibility of receiving moral damages and the like.

Keywords

cyber sexual crimes

sexual victims of cyber crimes

criminal proceedings support for cyber sexual victims

Delphi analysis

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