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Organizational Aspect of the Global Fight against Online Child Sexual Abuse
Author(s) -
Açar Kemal Veli
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12418
Subject(s) - phenomenon , action (physics) , sexual abuse , public relations , organizational structure , child sexual abuse , scale (ratio) , private sector , political science , criminology , psychology , business , poison control , law , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , epistemology , geography , philosophy , physics , environmental health , cartography , quantum mechanics
Online child sexual abuse is a relatively new form of crime against children which requires a more concerted action on a global scale. Intricate organizational, technical, legal and socio‐psychological issues surrounding this phenomenon make the current structure and possible solutions to organizational problems extremely complicated to analyse, evaluate and discuss. This commentary focuses on the organizational aspect by dividing the complex global response into four simple layers: governments and inter‐governmental agencies, police and judicial bodies, non‐governmental organizations and the private sector. Undoubtedly, developing more effective global policies for the fight against online child sexual abuse relies on deeper understanding of the current structure and the roles of each layer.