Abstract:
This paper examines Sexual Extortion of Children in Cyberspace (SECC), which has gained
notoriety despite the fact that it has recently emerged, and is also considered one of the most significant
online threats to children in 2015 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report of
Europol. After the characteristics and frequently-observed modus operandi of SECC are described, the
points of differentiation and overlap between SECC and other related concepts about online child
sexual abuse will be examined. Then, the constituent elements of SECC will be identified and
explained in detail; later, possible prevention strategies and research areas will be discussed
individually for each one. However, whether SECC should be defined as a separate criminal act and
the legal conditions of punishment in the current criminal law systems are completely ignored.