The Criminal Responsibility of Parents To Expose Their Children To The Dangers of Using Social Media In Light of The Recent Legislation of The Child In Kuwait

An analytical and comparative study in some aspectsWith the French and Egyptian legislations

Dr. Moath Soliman Al Mulla
Assist. Prof. – Criminal Law – Saad Al Abdullah Academy for Security Sciences – Kuwait

Abstract

Penal responsibility is a legal liability incurred by persons as a result of committing a punishable action by penal law or supplementary legislations. This responsibility arises when a person violates one of criminal and punishment rules in a manner that harms society or puts it in jeopardy. Everyone knows that family–being the initial core of the society – has been given multiple responsibilities. The most significant of them is sound and appropriate nurturing and upbringing of individuals in a manner by which individuals serve their societies efficiently. Unfortunately, this responsibility became very weak–in our present time–due to the massive revolution in information and communication technology as the gap between parents and their children became wider which led to increasing the difficulty of parental control and monitoring of the use of information and communication technology. Therefore, we find that some parents may abandon their social commitment in following-up their children and seeking to impose actual control over them claiming that they do not know how to use these tools, or that they are granting their children the chance to develop their talents, or their scientific or intellectual horizons. In that sense, what we aim to achieve from our participation in this conference is to determine how parents can be questioned from penal perspective in case their children are at risk while using Social Network Sites pursuant to the new legislations in the State of Kuwait such as Child’s Rights Act No. 21 of 2015, the Juvenile Act No. 111 of 2015 and Cybercrime Law No. 63 of 2015.

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