International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology, 2023, 5(16); doi: 10.25236/IJFS.2023.051614.
Zihao Yin
School of Law, People's Public Security University of China, Beijing, China
Indecent assault on children in the Internet environment presents a network spacing behaviours, in the incrimination of the judicial interpretation of the level of recognition, in the application of aggravating circumstances of criminal law, there is room for interpretation. Recognized as "public places in public" need to have both "openness" and "co-temporality"; "Crowds" in cyberspace need only satisfy temporal uniformity; there is a possibility of causing harm to children by molesting children in cyberspace under the theory of indirect principal offender; network spacing type of basic can be abstracted as non-contact + production, and network spacing type of basic aggravated abstraction for contact + production to distinguish; "Aggravated indecent assault" should be distinguished from traditional child molestation, and it is not appropriate to recognize cyber-alienation as an aggravating circumstance across the board.
Cybercrime, child molestation, aggravating circumstances
Zihao Yin. Criminal law application of the aggravating circumstance of cyber-spaced child molestation offenses. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 16: 91-97. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051614.
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