Police as Perpetrators of Child Sexual Crimes: A Review of Victimology and Criminology (Case Study in Lubuklinggau, South Sumatra, Indonesia

Abstract

Crimes that are rife in the form of sexual crimes targeting victims, namely minors. Child protection is implanted starting from the fetus until the age of 18 years. In fact, some children who are victims of crime are still toddlers, but the perpetrators are police officers who should be respected by the community and happened in Lubuklinggau, this needs to be considered and discussed in this paper. Of course, there will be impacts for victims in the future, either in the future or on themselves, such as mental health. The perpetrator, who is a police officer, has been arrested by the Lubuklinggau Police. Therefore, this paper discusses and examines sexual crimes whose victims are minors. This research relies on specifications in the form of analytical descriptive, which is meant to accurately describe the applicable laws and regulations with legal theories related to the problems discussed in this study and then processed qualitatively.