Criminality of Crimes against Public Ethic and Decency in Cyberspace

Criminalizing crimes against public ethic and decency in cyberspace, in addition to highlighting the strengths of the case, also puts gaps and weaknesses before the legislature to establish criminal titles, but creating behavioral restrictions through criminalization is contrary to the basic principle. It is freedom and obscenity of actions that should be limited to the most important and vital issues and should not limit the scope of voluntary activities of individuals.This article, with a descriptive-analytical method, examines the commission of crimes against public ethic and decency, especially pornography and prostitution in cyberspace, and examines social prevention methods and the situation for combating cybercrime in this environment. According to the results, among the social prevention methods against cybercrime, situational-oriented social measures with sub-categories of family-oriented prevention and educational-cyber prevention, and among society-based measures, information, participation and consensus, accountability promotion and culture building were mentioned. Also, among the prevention methods in cyberspace, situational prevention measures with a subset of restrictive measures, surveillance measures, licensing and identification and encryption tools were mentioned, which with the help of these measures, it will be possible to deal with cyber behavioral deviations to a large extent.