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Report on Cybercrime Impact on Child and Youth

   

Added on  2020-06-04

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Criminology
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Cybercrime is the computer related crime which is being included in the computer andnetwork. In simple words it can be said that cybercrime is Offences that are committed againstindividuals or groups of individuals with a motive of crime to intentionally harm the reputationof the victim or cause physical or mental harm, or loss, to the victim directly or indirectly, usingmodern telecommunication networks such as Internet (networks including but not limited to Chatrooms, emails, notice boards and groups) and mobile phones (Bluetooth/SMS/MMS). It has beengreat impact over the child and young people. The report is going to cover the differentcybercrime and how does it have impacted over the people like child and youth. Cyberstalking is usage of internet as a means to harass or stalk any individual with theaim to defame or slander. The activated include, theft of identity, gathering the informationwhich can embarrass the person with the motive to control the victim. Cyberstalking is alsorelated to monitoring someone's activity real-time through online and offline modes (Furlong,2013). It tends to come under the periphery of cybercrime because of its repetitive nature ofharassing, threatening and monitoring the activities of an individual. According to Hopkins-Burke (2016) cybercrime has become common these days. It isprevailing majorly in youth. It can be conducted in the form of cyber bullying, childpornography, chid grooming, hacking, etc. It not only affects the normal life of a child but it alsoleads to permanent mental illness, if the intensity of crime is high. The medium of these crimeincludes usage of modern telecommunication services such as, internet and mobile phones.However, as per the views of Cote (2014), a person tries to access personal information of victimwithout any authorization. It can be in the form of hacking the computer or accessing to socialnetworking website account. In some cases, e mails are also hacked by the hackers forcommercial advantage, malicious destruction etc. Incidence of suicides have also been increasedto a significant pace among child and young people due to defamation and embarrassment afterbecoming victim of cyber bullying. According to James and James (2004), Offenders are able to gain and enhance thematerial with the use of modern information and Communication technology (ICT). It acts a toolto gather information of the victim, assist in maintaining false identity, transmission of harmfulcontent to children and youngsters. Market child sex tourism has also been able to develop due to
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the presence of modern ICT in the market. The offenders tend to increase the harm to the victimby layering the crime, such as production of child sexual abuse material and then distributing andredistributing it at online platform. When it comes to falsified accessing, it initiates entering intothe network which is private. Defacing is the way of changing the content any individual on thewebsite. However, in contrast to this, as per the views of Roche and Tucker (2004), Hijacking isthe way by which person try to access a particular website and change its content. Bombing isoverwhelming a site by messaging in continuous form in order to slow sown or rubbish theserver. Denial of services is making a program which send numerous request on the sidecontinuously on a website so that serve can slow down or crashes. It is another way ofcybercrime performed by the offenders. It has been found that children are facing lots of problems while keeping them safe fromthe different cybercriminal activities. The biggest crime regarding the children is child grooming.It is the way by which emotions are being manipulation by which children and youth are beingprepared by the sexual exploitation. It is the process by which the child and youth are beingmake friendly by the other person by gaining the trust with the different means that are flattery,sympathy, gifts of money or modelling jobs, and other personal attention. Further, the groomerattempts for the sexualise the relationship between them and control the child and abuse him orher (Jenks, 2005). If these activities are done at the large extent, then it may result in childpornography or even child sex trafficking. These are the activities which are done on theinternet, people make embarrassing video of child and then that video is published at onlinemodes. This is the biggest risk for the child and adults where image of the person is demolishedfor the sake of money and interest. It has been analysed that use of modern technology, such as internet, mobile phones,computers and other electronic devices are the sole reason of increasing incidences ofcybercrime among children and youth. Law enforcement officials estimate that more than 50,000sexual predators are online at one moment every day. A significant number of offenders havebeen involved in collecting and trading child-pornographic images. With the help of differentsocial networking platforms such as chat application, chat rooms etc. these activities areperformed (Mclaughlin and Muncie, 2013). Offenders empathize with their problems anddisplaying a great deal of affection, which are sometimes followed by gifts. It has been analysedby Youth Internet Safety Survey that 22% of the girls stated that their nude or semi-nude pictures
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