Cyber Crimes on the Internet

Elizabeth Catherine Bush, a student at Bishop Neumann High School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, arrives at school with a loaded gun. She shoots and injures another student at the school after being teased and bullied. Mental health experts warn that bullying can have lifelong consequences for the victims. More than 50,000 students on the app After School have been connected to a crisis counselor to help them. On one side of the debate people will argue that social media does not lead to more bullying because that is a place where everyone is nice to each other. It is very important for kids not to bully because of the effects on the family, the effect on the individual, and the effects on the bully.

By giving these victims the power to bully others, gives them the sense of relief getting revenge on those who tormented them (Child Refuge, 2011). Even though there are several reasons why teens turn to cyberbullying, there are also stereotypes that follow. In fact, researched discovered that girls are more likely to become victims while males tend to be the bullies and when you compare Caucasians to African Americans, African Americans are more likely to become the cyber bully (Sbarbaro and Smith, 2011). Regardless of who is doing the bullying online or why, at the end of the day it all

Bullies could have made someone kill themselves. According to NBC News, a 13 year old

Bullying has been around since the beginning of time. Parents may remember when they were kids and the bully would pick on them or their friends by stealing lunch money or just getting beat up, and that was the end of it. The victims remember the hurt, frustration, and sadness it caused. However, these days, bullying is not just happening on the playground or at the bus stop, it is happening on the Internet and on cell phones, making it possible to bully a child 24 hours a day with multiple bullies and thousands of kids watching. Cyberbullying follows children nonstop and into the safety of their house. Sometimes kids are afraid to inform their parents about the cyberbullying that they will think its there fault. Or that their parents will call the bullies parents or other parents, making the bullying worse. However, the effect and pain that comes from cyberbullying is real. People underestimate cyberbullying, just because it is happening online and not in person. Cyberbullying can lead to many different factors like drinking, and drugs, poor grades, depression, eating disorders. Many students have even taken their own lives because of another student saying something to them online. Cyberbullying has been taking place a lot more in middle and high schools because of the increased usage of social media networks and technology. Cyberbullying is worse and more harmful than traditional bullying.

Kids get bullied most every day. Most young women get harassed online by other students. People may ask what cyberbullying is. Well cyberbullying is where they use technology to harass and target one another. Girls have a higher risk for online harassment. Boys are more likely to be bullied offline. Cyberbullying is a serious crime in the United States. If any teacher or principle finds out that your harassing anybody then they can be suspended from school and kick out from any sports. All bully’s come from any social media. While bullying others on the internet, bulls would create a blog or a website. Then they would threaten teens by images they would have sent them. They would send them though text,

The creation go of the Internet has helped spawn new forms of criminals and crimes, and has always helped make older criminal schemes easier to execute, identity theft, child pornography, copyright violations, hacking and you could go on and on. In a 2003 survey conducted by the CSI with the participation of the San Francisco Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Computer Intrusion Squad, of the 530 respondents made up of U.S. corporations, government agencies, financial institutions, medical institutions and universities, 56% reported unauthorized use of their computer systems (2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey).

First of all, in 2011 the scholastic scope had taken a survey if they have been mean to someone online and if they have been hurt by someone else online. According to the survey, about fifty-eight kids say that someone has been mean or hurtful to them online. In 2013, kids were surveyed again (but from EU kids online) and it stated that seventy percent and or seven out of ten kids have been sufferers of hurtful comments. In two years, twelve percent of more kids confessed to be a victim of hurtful words on posts and comments. As you can see, many youngsters have been in distress because of loathsome remarks. Consequently, more and more kids have been in a situation of cyber bullying and soon everyone will.

The internet is an easy way for people to prey and take advantage of people. When people use the internet they can disguise themselves as someone they are not. It’s harder to track a person who is committing cybercrimes because the person puts what they want on the internet. A people want to trust other people and when they are on the internet it’s easier to believe whatever a person says. Also with technology people makes it easier for people to gain access to other people’s information. People use the internet to make their lives easier. These days people can do just about everything on the computer so if a criminal can hack into someone’s computer then they virtually have a person’s whole life and they can use that to their

With this kind of technology being right at young peoples’ fingertips, it is easy to just type something hurtful, mean, or rude and not think about the consequences. On the other hand, there is a variety of reasons that a person is bullying someone. It could be that that person is experiencing some type of family issues at home and that person does not know how to deal with that, they have experienced rejection from their peers themselves and they feel that bullying is the only way to be accepted. Other reasons that a person bullies is that it they feel that it is the only reason that they can receive attention, and they have no other outlet for their anger and frustration. Even though cyber bullying takes place everywhere it is not a crime.

The 17 year old from California, went viral on Social Media after someone posted her Senior Quote online.

There was a girl, named Megan, from Minnesota who committed suicide because people were bullying her. People were so mean to her to the point where she killed herself. Her parents were devastated their 13-year-old daughter just hung herself. Two girls made up a fake account on MySpace and told Megan, “the world is better off with you”. Bullying can cause suicide, like Megan's case, or cause your mood to change. There should be stricter laws against bullying.

Today the status quo about internet crime regulation seems to be perplexed. One part of the status quo held by the general public is that crime on the internet must be defeated to keep the public safe. Another part of this that people have is that the internet should be free of monitoring and regulations, in order to secure personal privacy. The problem with the first quo is that it is extremely difficult to end all forms of crime that occur on the web. This is due to the complexity and sheer mass of crimes which occur there. The unfathomable number of crimes committed on the web are difficult to regulate

Over centuries, technology has developed rapidly from the telegraph to the computer, followed by the internet. Before to the turn of last century, there was no such thing as carrying the web inside a pocket. Cellular phones now have easy access to the web, where all people can use social media instantaneously. There are many pros and cons that come with these new developments. Moreover, these has not been many protective regulations enacted over on who is using the internet. There are men, for example, that use the internet to abuse young girls, even boys and, create themselves as another person. Also, there are people that receive filthy money by selling drugs to people online. In addition, there has been many acts of violence over the years, organized and caused by terrorists who communicate and plan their acts of violence online. Overall, even though freedom of speech and privacy are important to the history and culture of the United States, certain regulations regarding the internet are needed.

In accordance with many decades of cyber evolution, a cybercrime is shown in different ranges of crimes, which depend on the spread of technology and law. From the introduction of computer in the 1960s to the rise of personal computer in 1980s, cybercrime began to appear. The crimes can vary from piracy of software to patent-related crimes. This caused a surge in the introduction of relevant legislation in many countries and international organizations involved. In late 1990s, when Internet and transnational crimes were born, the international community cooperated in many instances such as the passing of the UN General Assembly Resolution 45/121 in 1990 and the manual for the prevention and control of computer-related crimes issued in 1994. Despite all the

The Internet is a connection of computers across the world through a network. Its origin dates back to the 1960s when the U.S Military used it for research, but it became more available to the public from the late 1980s. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 and browsers began appearing in the early 1990s. Over the last 24 years, the Internet has enabled people to shop, play, do research, communicate and conduct business online. It has also become cheaper and faster in performing different tasks. As much as the Internet has done immeasurable good to society, it has also dominated people’s lives and brought with it an array of cybercrimes. According to Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think,