디지털성범죄 대응정책의 국가별 비교 연구

A Comparative Study on Policies for Digital Sexual Crimes: Focusing on USA, UK and Australia

(Purpose) Recent crimes such as Nth Room Case, Telegram sexual abuse, and Webhard cartel raised the big alarm to the society, prompting big attention to the public and the political circle. A diversity of policies and programs are introduced to prevent such crime and support victims, but called for is more attention and resource of governments. In the rise of digital crimes and the demand of efficient use for public resource this study seeks to look at the policies of digital sexual crimes of South Korea, Australia, United States and United Kingdom. The comparison of the policies of the four countries intends to their common and unique feature and searches for ways to improve policy outcome. (Design/methodology/approach) To analyze the policies for digital sexual crime victims, foremost, reviewed is a diversity of documents from four countries and policies of each country are compared by the process of supporting victims. Then, the comparison of four countries identifies their common and unique features. (Findings) Digital sexual Crimes as a relatively new phenomenon takes a lot of public attention from the recent incidences. Despite its prevalence the legal and policy approaches have several holes such as the lack of legal and practical definitions, the interpretation of cases and levels of victim support. The political perspective shaped by triggering incidences often determines the policy trajectory. (Research implications or Originality) Recent rises of digital sexual crimes with the rapid advance of communication and information technologies produces a wide variety of policies supporting the victims. The policies include removal of digital images, stronger measures to screen indecent material, granting legal and ethical accountability to internet service providers, and couselling service to victim. The recent attention shows overlapping services, exposing the legal and practical issues to be resolved.