Internet Crimes Against Children and Minors

Abstract

Children and young people increasingly use personal computers and mobile phones to communicate with other people, both known and unknown. Children are very often not aware of the risk of communicating with people they do not know, who often impersonate themselves and provide incorrect information about their age, appearance, place of residence and other personal information. Unlike potential abusers, children generally provide truthful information about their identity and movements. Perpetrators can find out the numbers of potential victims through various internet chats, mobile network chats, children’s magazines in which children leave information with a phone number, or through various shows in which mobile phone numbers are broadcast at the bottom of the screen with invitations to correspond via mobile phone.