CRIMINAL PROTECTION OF MINORS AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY

Abstract

In modern criminal law, special attention is paid to the protection of children and minors from various forms of abuse, especially in the area of sexual freedom. Thus, in certain legislations, criminal offenses that protect the sexual freedom of children and minors are systematized in a separate group, while in the largest number of legislations, such criminal offenses are prescribed in the same place, in the same group with other criminal offenses that are aimed at protecting the sexual freedom of adults. or persons with specific characteristics such as: infirm persons, blood relatives, etc. In addition to other criminal acts against sexual freedom, in the Republic of Serbia, as a specific form of sexual exploitation of minors, there is a criminal offense that prescribes criminal liability and punishment for creating, possessing or showing pornographic material with minors. This work is about the concept, elements, content, characteristics and forms of manifestation of the criminal offense of "child pornography" in the law of the Republic of Serbia.