Should Cyberbullies Be Held Criminally Responsible For A Victim's Suicide

Concluding, ones who bully online should be prosecuted for the acts they have committed. The effects done by cyberbullying cause many people to become miserable. Bullies do terrible things to make others feel bad about themselves because of their insecurities or because they do things differently than them. Cyber bullies should only be prosecuted for reasonable reasons. If the bully does something so bad that it causes the victim to do things such as self-harm, then they should be punished for their

At some point during your childhood, you may have encountered that troubled individual, typically known as the “bully” that drove fear in the hearts of the weakest link by humiliating them, taking what is rightfully theirs, constantly picking on them and sometimes even inflicting physical abuse. Well I hate to break it to you but this individual is back and is more equipped than before, preying on the weak and vulnerable in the cyber world (internet). Most recently, it took a crime wave of “cyber bullying” before our media and leaders in the Untied States gave it attention; now that the American people realize that the “classroom bully” has evolved into a more dangerously clever and

To start off, people should be prosecuted for cyberbullying online because they might be threatening someone's life. If someone cyberbullies someone else, the bully could be ruining their reputation. Also they could be ruining their future careers that

Adolescents should be prosecuted for Cyber bullying because it will ensure that they will not do it again,which will almost certainly save peoples lives. Unfortunately this thought has come a bit too late for some, such as 13 year old Megan Meier, who committed suicide after months of being cyber bullied. In this essay I will provide sufficient evidence to prove that teenagers should indeed be prosecuted for Cyber-bullying.

The results of cyber bullying is very unpredictable as it can go from the victim just shrugging it off to the very extreme with is that the victim taking their own life.

To conclude, no one should have to face prosecution for what they say online because bullying isn’t illegal in real life, people have the right to speak freely, and people should be allowed to decide who they interact with

The welfare of the victim is clearly affected. Cyberbullying has raised suicide ratings to an unnatural high. It gives the victim a feeling no longer in control, the one doing the bullying has all the control and uses that control against the victim. With

Many people think that cyber bullying itself should be a criminal offense. Cyber bullying has been linked to a fair amount of youth suicides. An example of cyber bullying that led to a suicide was of a thirteen-year-old boy named Ryan Halligan. Ryan went to school in Vermont and committed suicide in October of 2003. The children that were friends with him had told his parents that he had been being bullied since the 5th grade and all the way up to the months before he killed himself. His parents then were able to find out why he committed suicide was by logging into his instant messaging account and seeing all of the humiliating messages that he had been receiving from a bully. Another

At the same time, cyberbullying should be criminalized because it would provide victims a pathway to escape the bullying by allowing them to report the crime to the police and knowing something can actually be done about it. First, due to the high presence of technology in Canadians’ lives, it is impossible for a victim to escape or counteract the bullying. More often than not, these victims are at some points completely helpless. This feeling of helplessness can lead to significant depression and can even lead to suicidal thoughts and tendencies. An example of this is the story of British Columbia native Amanda Todd, a fifteen year old who was cyberbullied relentlessly about reveling pictures of herself that were posted online without her permission. Amanda later committed suicide on

For every suicide due to cyberbullying, there are dozens of other who suffer a sense of over whelming fear but don’t take the final step. Nevertheless, many of those cyberbullying victims carry the scars of their experience with them for many years.

Cyber bullies cause harm physically and mentally. For example, Rebecca Sedwick, who was 12, jumped off a tower and died. 2 girls went to the State Attorney’s Office for admitting to harassing Rebecca. In California, some kids posted mean pictures and sent mean messages to a boy. In despair, Seth tried to kill himself on September 19, and died eight days later. “In 2010, the Cyber bullying Research Center surveyed 4,441 teenagers. It found 16.6 percent of males and 25.1 percent of females said they had experienced cyber bullying. And 83 percent of all respondents used cell phones.” In my opinion, these bullies should have consequences.

The Internet has played a major role in society, when it comes to bullying. Numerous people influence cyber bullying to get their point across. However, they tend to forget the harm being caused towards others. Society, needs to realize that there are other ways to approach a situation. For example,

Anna Maria Chavez states, “Unless and until our society recognizes cyber-bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.” Cyber-bullying is crime and should be addressed as so. Oxford English dictionary defines cyber-bullying as follows, the use of informational technology to bully a person by sending or posting texts or images of an intimidating or threatening nature. Oxford dictionary defines a crime as a sin, sinfulness; wrongdoing. It goes on to describe crime against humanity, that definition is: an immoral or destructive act- an unlawful act which causes human suffering or death on a large scale. Oxford describes crime as being a destructive act, and cyber-bullying as being intimidating or threatening,

Cyber bullying is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on social networking sites. There have been quite a few teenage suicides in which cyber bullying seems to have played a role. In at least one case, the suicide of Alexis Pilkington, the bullying kept going on her tribute page even after her death. (Glor) “Cyber-Bullying can cause the victim to become chronically depressed and to experience a complete loss of self-esteem. A short exposure to Cyber-Bullying can have long term effects. It can result in Cyber-Bullying Suicides.” (Cyber-Bullying Suicides - Cyber Bullycide Victims ) It has many forms such as degradation, harassment, cyber stalking, impersonation, flaming (using vulgar and angry language to start fights with the victim), password theft and hacking accounts, posting photos or videos, among several others. (Cyber-Bullying Suicides - Cyber Bullycide Victims ) Bullying has been around way before the internet, but now that it is online, rumors, pictures or other forms of cyber bullying make their way around the community much faster so it is easier to humiliate someone in front of more people. “In the Internet era, it appears there are more people interested in spewing hate than in countering it. On the social networking sites and on YouTube, inflammatory, hate-filled content overwhelms the limited efforts to

The following literature review is all about how cyber bullying affects the life of the ones who got bullied, the chances of committing suicide among the victims and the laws in several states regarding cyber bullying.