Abstract
Since officially joining the globally connected computer network in 1997, Vietnam has made impressive progress with 64 million internet users as of June 2017, accounting for 67% of the population and is also among the countries with the highest number of internet users in Asia. Social media is widely available with a large focus on young groups. This chapter provides the overall situation on online sex assaults and exploitations child in Vietnam with its detailed characteristics and figures as well as shares the specific efforts of government and law enforcement authorities to prevent and combat this crime from 2010 to 2018 after the professional task force of Vietnamese police established in 2010 till now. The chapter also analyzes the difficulties, challenges, and barrier to fight it before introducing the proposals, strategies, and focuses on anticipate, prevent, and combat this crime of Vietnam's authorities.
TopIntroduction
Being an emerging cybercrime market, there is still limited research that looks into sexual assaults and exploitations child on cyberspace in Vietnam. What are the trends and patterns in online sexual misconducts in Vietnam? What have been Vietnam facing challenges in prevention and combat online sexual related children? How Vietnam protect children online safety now? This chapter aims to answer these questions and to consider whether the strategies developed and implemented in the global and regional examples are suitable to Vietnam. To do this, the study will provide an overview picture of online sexual assault and exploitation child (OSAEC) in Vietnam, assess current programs and measures implemented by law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and its related bodies in fighting these crimes, and call for policy recommendations to improve these solutions. However, the first section, the paper will brief the current situation of utilizing information and communication technology (ICT) in Southeast Asia region and their concerned issues facing to the backside of social media, particularly with children.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Child: It is a form of criminal under the current law in Vietnam to charge any those crime of abuse and exploitation of child in cyberspace: all forms and methods.
Cybersecurity: is to protect computer networks from acts of theft or damage failure of hardware, software, or database, as well as from disruption or disorientation of services provided. These actions are applied and sentenced by the Law on Cybersecurity and Criminal Code of Vietnam.
Cybercrimes: Any deliberate offenses are committed against an individual, a group of people or an organization, adversely affecting the victim's reputation or causing physical harms and/or spirit substances, either directly or indirectly, to victims by modern technologies related to telecommunications networks such as the Internet, phones and other applications. These actions are charged by the Criminal Code of Vietnam.
Cyberspace: It is a virtual space, where computers exchange data and information, both negative and positive context. It also is seen as a social experience, individuals can interact, exchange ideas, share information, provide social support, create out of art media, playing games; however, it is also where offender can take advantage online to commit a crime.
Social Media: It is a concept that refers to a method of mass communication on the basis of online services and/or websites on the Internet. To do it: users, either good or bad one, can access, interact with others through technology devices.
Child Pornography: It refers to paedophiles who are used to refer to sexual intercourse with underage children or activities involving pornography with children through producing, exporting, storing, and distributing all pornographic images, photos, and videos.
Sexting: Sexting is a compound word for sex (sex) and texting (texting). Sexting is sending or receiving sexually explicit content and/or suggesting sex-related things such as pictures, messages or videos. This usually happens through technical means such as messages and/or emails.