What is the Digital Sexual Crime for University students
a. Filming
b. Distributing
c. Threat
d. Anxiety
2. Find out Mechanism of the crime
a. Digital crime industry
b. Cultural mechanism
c. Sexual Crime mechanism
3. Effort to solve the Digital Sexual Crime
a. For the safe online circumstance
b. The world changes from me first
What is the Digital Sexual Crime ?
Let’s see !
The suspected crime report is getting increased from 2012 to 2018, about 16,000 case reports increased.
Especially, The type of filming violence using like camera takes about 20 percentage out of all the other kinds of sexual crime.
4. Anxiety and depression
Case report (Photographing)
“I was sitting on the bus and I woke up and suddenly looked up, and a man hurriedly put down his phone, showing a look of bewilderment. I thought it was strange, but I was about to go back to sleep when I opened my eyes and the man was looking down at me again with his cell phone. I suddenly got goosebumps and jumped up, and the man hurriedly put down his phone again. When I asked to see the cell phone, The man said, why?, and while arguing, I could see the cell phone with the help of other passengers around me. In the photo album, there was a close-up video of my sleeping face and breastbone.”
Case report (Distributing)
“I once filmed a sexual video with my ex-boyfriend, but I couldn't tell him to delete the video when we broke up. But recently, an acquaintance told me that a video of me was uploaded on the Internet. It bothered me that I couldn't delete the video at the time of the breakup, but I didn't know it would really spread.”
Case report (Threating)
“I once took a sex video with my boy friend and promised to delete it immediately after seeing it on the spot. I remember deleting it at the time, but when I asked to break up, he suddenly said he had the video. I'm still threatening to spread it as soon as we break up..”
Case report (Anxiety)
“I have sent me with underwear and breast pictures to my x-boyfriend, even with my face. Since I remember it when I hear the crime cases from media, sometimes I am very nervous, worrying that my pictures are spread so afraid of being in a place where many people are.”
Special law of Sexual Violence Crimes and Punishment
1. A person who uses a camera or other mechanical device with similar functions to photograph the body of a person capable of inducing sexual desire or shame against the will of the subject shall be punished by imprisonment for less than five years or by a fine not exceeding 30 million won. <Amended 2018. 12. 18.>
2. A person who distributes, sells, rents, provides, or openly displays or screens a photographed material or reproduction pursuant to Paragraph 1, or even if the filming pursuant to Paragraph 1 is not against the will of the person to be photographed at the time of filming, the photographed material or reproduction A person who disseminates, etc. against the will of the person to be filmed shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or by a fine of not more than 30 million won <Amended on December 18, 2018>
3. A person who commits the crime of paragraph 2 by using the information and communications network under Article 2, paragraph 1, item 1 against the will of the person to be photographed for profit shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than seven years. <Amended 2018.12.18.>
Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection
1. No one shall circulate information falling under any of the following subparagraphs through information and communications networks.
2. A person who falls under any of the following subparagraphs shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than 10 million won. A person who distributes, sells, rents, or openly displays obscene codes, words, sounds, images or videos in violation of Article 44-7 Paragraph 1
Criminal Law
1. A person who threatens another person shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years, a fine of not more than five million won, detention, or a minor fine.
2. A person who commits the crime under paragraph (1) against himself or his spouse's lineal ascendant shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years or by a fine not exceeding seven million won.
Let’s Find out Mechanism of the Digital Sexual Crime
Industrial Mechanism of the Crime
Produce – Circulation – Consumption – Delete
Abuse of Human body as Sexual goods
Adult Video Culture
- The illegal video can be a kind of genre
- It can be a basis of the digital sexual crime
Culture that evaluates whether a victim is socially acceptable
Such as “Didn’t the victim provide an excuse?”
“Is she usually pure and moral?”
“Is she carefully enough not to get hurt?”
“Wasn’t she a promiscuous person?”
“Isn’t she smiling or proud?”
“Is she feel shame?”
“Is she have incurable pain?”
“Does she live normally?”
Putting frame on a victim as Victimism
->Victim loses opportunity to recover from damage
*An environment from which damage cannot be recovered
*Cannot be protected within the legal system
The digital sexual crime chains between industrial structure and cultural structure
Effort to solve the digital sexual crime
Effort to solve the digital sexual crime
Effort to solve the digital sexual crime
Secure the media security systems, Crackdown every kind of digital sexual crimes, Reinforcement of punishment related to sexual crime, Education of the crime, Development of new tools to prevent the crime…etc.
How to get help
Victim Support Center: 02)735-8994
Online: www.women1366/stopds
Emergency Call 1366
Women violence consult: www.women1366.kr
Juvenile Cyber Consult Center: 1388 (Kakao : #1388
Korean Cyber Sexual Crime Counteracts Center: 02)817-7959 e-mail: hotline@cyber-lion.com
Effort to solve the digital sexual crime for individuals
The Final solution of the digital sexual crime is to dismantle the industrial structure and cultural structure
Thank you