Advocacy and Combating Sexual Crimes in the Perspective of Child Protection Law

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find the right forms of advocacy against Child Victims of Sexual Crime and Efforts to Overcome Sexual Crime in a Child Protection Perspective. The method in this research is the Participant Research Method (the Method of the Participant Observer), which is to fully involve oneself in Advocacy and Efforts to Overcome Sexual Crimes against Children. This research with through an empirical juridical approach by conducting research approaches regarding matters that are juridical (law) and with a fact of facts that occur regarding matters of an empirical nature. The results in this study are forms Advocacy and Efforts to Overcome Sexual Crime in a Child Protection Perspective, in accordance with the Law on Child Protection, namely advocacy in the form of litigation (legal assistance / through judicial channels) and non-litigation (assistance outside the court route), efforts to combat sexual crimes by means of preventive (prevention), repressive (action); persuasive (by persuading or directing the community to comply with the prevailing values ​​and norms) this is done by means of socialization and direction, coercive is control that is harsh or firm in nature (for example the imposition of a sentence by a judge) and rehabilitative (social rehabilitation).