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<p>Child sexual abuse represents a complex product of many factors, such as social, cultural, economic and biological amounting to long-term consequences for the victim due to the child’s psychological immaturity during its developmental stage. One of the most important measures applied towards the prevention of such criminal offense is the registration of persons convicted of child sexual abuse and paedophilia in a special register. Despite being widespread, their implementation is not universal. The first part of this paper identifies the origin of such registers by analysing separate cases of the US and the UK. The second part manifests an international comparative approach toward the legislation and modality of selected countries which have successfully established and regulated sexual offender registries within their national legal systems. For that matter, five countries originating from different continents throughout the globe are analysed: the Balkan Peninsula (Macedonia and Albania), Europe (France), North America (Canada) and Africa (Kenya).</p>
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Child sexual abuse represents a complex product of many factors, such as social, cultural, economic and biological amounting to long-term consequences for the victim due to the child’s psychological immaturity during its developmental stage. One of the most important measures applied towards the prevention of such criminal offense is the registration of persons convicted of child sexual abuse and paedophilia in a special register. Despite being widespread, their implementation is not universal. The first part of this paper identifies the origin of such registers by analysing separate cases of the US and the UK. The second part manifests an international comparative approach toward the legislation and modality of selected countries which have successfully established and regulated sexual offender registries within their national legal systems. For that matter, five countries originating from different continents throughout the globe are analysed: the Balkan Peninsula (Macedonia and Albania), Europe (France), North America (Canada) and Africa (Kenya).

Registration of child sexual abusers and paedophiles as a preventive measure – A comparative analysis

Law Faculty – South East European University – Tetovo

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Child sexual abuse represents a complex product of many factors, such as social, cultural, economic and biological amounting to long-term consequences for the...

Registration of child sexual abusers and paedophiles as a preventive measure – A comparative analysis

Published Online: Oct 18, 2023

Page range: 44 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejels-2023-0015

Keywords
child sexual abuse, special register, paedophilia, preventive measures, international legislation

© 2023 Vedije Ratkoceri, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Registration of child sexual abusers and paedophiles as a preventive measure – A comparative analysis

Published Online: Oct 18, 2023

Page range: 44 - 56

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ejels-2023-0015

Keywordschild sexual abuse, special register, paedophilia, preventive measures, international legislation

© 2023 Vedije Ratkoceri, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
child sexual abuse, special register, paedophilia, preventive measures, international legislation