Grooming: Perspectiva en Argentina y Brasil

Abstract

Abstract. During the first years of this century, grooming has acquired relevant notoriety, due to the significant number of cases, due to the enactment of legislation according to the matter and the leading role of NICTs. This article aims to introduce the reader to a comparative study of the regulations existing in the two Mercosur countries (Argentina and Brazil) in the relevant aspects of grooming, to analyze how collaboration between both countries and the NICTs would allow to detect, report and prosecute behaviors that constitute abuse or exploitation of children, girls and adolescents made through the network and advance in the design proposal of some technological tool that facilitates the concretion of the complaint directly by the boy or girl victim of grooming.
 
Key words: Grooming, pedophilia, cybercrime, Convention on the rights of the child, CIDN, Optional Protocol, Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente, Brazilian Penal Code, Argentine Penal Code, UN, “Budapest Convention on Cybercrimeâ€.