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María Marta González Tascón
Universidad de Oviedo
Spain
Vol 31 (2011), Articles
Submitted: 02-05-2012 Accepted: 03-05-2012 Published: 03-05-2012
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The present article has as main objective the analysis of a newoffence that was introduced in the Spanish Criminal Code by 5/2010Act: solicitation of children for sexual purposes through informationand communication technologies (ICTs). For these purposes it focus onthe phenomenon of online child grooming and its treatment at the internationallevel as a first step to further study of the new offence in orderto provide some criteria that help the interpretation of the new standard.

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