Neue Präventionsaufgaben

Violence and crime is of course always very drastically formulated. I will formulate it a little more cautiously that in the digital world, of course, the overall risks for adolescence, but also for growing up and living in society, have greatly increased. We have premature access to all content-related risks. Sex, extremism, violence are the issues here. We have new consumption-related risks, i.e. the aggressive forms of advertising that are being drawn into the digital world. With the appropriate handling of personal data, with target-group-specific advertising, such things. We then have the new forms of so-called communication-related risks. At the point where people increasingly enter into digital exchange and contact with each other without boundaries, we are increasingly dealing with hate speech. We are dealing with the belittling of individuals, with exclusion, with bullying in the broadest sense. And the last point is, of course, the new behavioural risks: people and also young people have the opportunity at an ever earlier stage to become active themselves and accordingly it is sometimes those themselves who cross the boundaries with explicit sexual material of themselves, which they put online. By putting others down, or by diving so deeply into the world of media, diving so deeply into the digital world that they cannot get out on their own. Of course, this all points directly to new demands for prevention. On the one hand, this means picking up the target groups where they are anyway, i.e. in the digital world. Strengthening peer-to-peer approaches and of course also early preventive work before people become active in the digital world, so that people are informed about opportunities and risks.

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