Cyber Child Pornography Law and Technology Problems in Its Law Enforcement

摘要

Rapid grow of internet users as a result of widely open access significantly contributes to increasing criminal cases particularly child pornography. Internet becomes a convenient place for users to commit distant crime by accessing porn images or child photographs as well as child sexual activity. Meanwhile, current methods to prevent and solve are considered ineffective and conventional. This paper discloses the increasing number of child pornography and provides solution to overcome it. It applied juridical, normative, empirical and technological methods. The results show that it is a tough task for law enforcement officials to find, detect and put the child pornography offenders in prison. The given law is too child-oriented, that is, it contradicts imprisonment concept to put children in jail. Thus, other form of imprisonment is needed including limited access, prohibition and access supervision for the perpretators. Yet, a question follows: who will supervise the access? A set of regulation is then seemingly required. Technology utilization expectedly can contribute to prevent child pornography in terms of software, filter or detector. Considering technology failure few years ago, technology advancement need maintaining to block creativity of cyberchild pornography to hack the information system to reach their goal.