Research Paper On Cyber Stalking

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Cyberbully: A word that you may see repeatedly in news and social media, even maybe you or your friends have been a victim of this phenomenon. A survey among 131 undergraduate students (73 female and 57 male) in a US university with an undergraduate population of less than 10000 students shows that fifty-four percent of all respondents reported knowing someone who had been cyberbullied (Walker et al.183).

In the article College Student Perceptions of Criminal Justice System Responses to Stalking (2011) the authors explain the methods they had used and examples of past and current research in order to give an insight as what is being explained throughout the article. The current study used a survey that had been administered to undergraduate college students from a large east coast university to examine whether extra-legal factors influenced their personal judgements of criminal justice system responsiveness to stalking (Cass & Rosay, 2011). Stalking and to how it is perceived by college students was the question. There are specified statistics as to where victimization rates range from, for example 13 percent to 30 percent and other estimates

Cyber stalking can result in penalties beyond jail time. Thus, if the harassment is proven to be damaging, it could result in a conviction that requires a defendant to register as a sex offender (Followill, 2015). Numerous employers and renters will not accept or hire someone who is registered as a sex

Some of the most common cyber-crimes are cyberstalking, identity theft, spam and phishing among others. Cyber stalking has been classified as one of prevalent cybercrimes with many internet users falling victims of cyber bullying. Cyber stalkers meet their victims in different ways; mostly they normally have a relationship either in the real world or online world. Cyberstalking starts when this relationship ends. However, strangers who have collected information on the internet can also be cyber stalkers. The desire to control and even harm their victims is what motivates cyber stalkers. They may go to the measures of personifying their victims and post messages or controversial posts on the boards and chat rooms. In this real regard, cyberstalking is a real crime (Mansourabadi, 2014).

Stalking is a terrifying and potentially lethal crime that seems to be on the rise in recent years. While the act itself can be displayed in a variety of ways with many different motivations, the effects on the victims always result in some sort of fear, anxiety, and paranoia among others, along with crippling the victim financially. The media portrayal of stalking can lead to misconceptions about the crime and minizations of the behavior by the general public can lead to a secondary victimization and cause the crime to go unreported. Although anti-stalking laws exist they vary from state to state and may not always provide the adequate of protection, even a person convicted of stalking will only serve a year or less in prison if no other charges

With fresh technology entering this world, there is no telling how dreadful harassment can develop. Harassment on social media is already a terrible thing and it is going to get worse before it will get better. Cyber-bullying, another to phrase social media bullying, has become a worldwide trend. Many incidents have already happened to innocent children who get ridiculed and mocked via internet and technology. Their safety gets destroyed and crushed because the cyber-bullies tease and mock them. The average man would want his personal life private not public. The average man wants his safety from demons like these bullies. The average man who has access to technology already has freedom, just not their

Stalking is defined as a pattern of criminal conduct inflicted by an offender on an unwilling target who becomes fearful for his or her own safety. Illegal acts include intimidating, harassing, and threatening behaviors that would make a reasonable person afraid for impending bodily harm. Before the term stalking was coined, these intolerable intrusions were not taken seriously by authorities unless and until physical injuries were inflicted. There are two types of victim-offender relationships for most complaints. One is celebrity stalking, which is publicized if an attack followed by an arrest takes place. Another, the more common type, is prior relationships, which can emerge between professionals and their clients, employers and employees

Characteristics of a stalking case and the individuals involved impact the decision to convict stalking perpetrators in the court- room. Research on factors that influence courtroom decision- making involving stalking cases has typically employed a vignette design or a mock juror design, with some of this research aiming to increase the effectiveness of state stalking legislation (Dunlap, Hodell, Golding, & Wasarhaley, 2012; Dunlap et al., 2015). With regard to vignette studies, Scott, Rajakaruna, Sheridan, and Sleath (2014) studied the influence of prior relationship and severity of stalking behavior on perceptions of stalking. They found that a stalker’s behavior (e.g., an ambiguous, low-level, or high-level offense) would be more likely

Technology has allowed abusive persons three basic benefits to continuing to harass their victim. The first benefit is that by calling and texting the abuser does not have much cost invested and he doesn’t even have to be in the same county to inflict harassing calls or leave messages. The second benefit for the abuser who is using technology is that they can insight others to join in on the bullying of their victim. Lastly, in the past in order to stalk or harass a woman the abuser would have to follow them physically and take time out of their day and their budget to drive around the neighborhood to follow them (Shimizu, 2013).

Another form of harassment is cyberstalking. So what is cyberstalking? As Naomi Goodno (2007) wrote,” While there is not a universally accepted definition, cyberstalking involves the use of the Internet, e-mail, or other means of electronic communication to stalk or harass another individual.” (pg.129) Jealousy is reason for people in relationships to cyberstalk one another. “The ensuing jealousy manifests as a need for reducing uncertainty by gathering information about the external threat.” (pg. 708) (2010, Tokunaga) Facebook is a good example of an easy way to stalk. “Facebook intrusion was related to relationship dissatisfaction, and cognitive jealousy and surveillance behaviors were linked to relationship dissatisfaction.” (pg.633) (2011,

In this newspaper article, the author helps the reader understand and how to treat cyber bullying. The author explains what bullying is and how it is modernized to become cyber bullying. The article informs the reader of main point, in a brief but effective description about recognizing and treating cyber bullying. The author show great statistical research on her topic but not enough the emotional appeal. It provides good use to my research because of the extensive use on how it should be treated.

Bullying is a bad thing but the worst of all the types of bullying is cyber bulling, it is a terrible weapon that can destroy someone's life and reputation. Cyber bullying is a part of bullying in which a person torments or harasses other people in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner, with technology. It has had a much greater effect on the world more than the traditional way of bullying.

Cyberstalking has become very popular in the world we live in today. Cyberstalking is unfortunately happening every day to a lot to the men and women of our society of various ways through the internet. 18 U.S. Code Section 2261A: Stalking is the law that is broken on a regular basis. Understanding that this law can be hard to understand. Defined by one of the many definitions from the FindLaw website as “with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person in another State or tribal jurisdiction or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States; (iii) a spouse or intimate partner of that

There are many ways that cybercrimes are conducted. One particular offense is the case of cyber bullying and or harassment personal pictures hacked from a specific personal computer.