Kirandeep Kaur Sidhu
Dr. Harper
English 100
22 October 2017
An article review of Alisdair A. Gillespie’s “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response”
Alisdair A. Gillespie’s article “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response” examines the extent of the cyberbullying and gives the legal response to tackle these problems. By the use of technology, anyone can threaten to an individual by sending the SMS and may use the picture of an individual for the advertisement of sexual service websites. The abuse of communication technology deeply affects the children and abuse is not only limited to this point. There are many threats of the technology such as cyber-stalking, cyberbullying. There is one charity that …show more content…
Gillespie discusses the legal solution to tackle this problem and law can be used for the better regulation of the cyberspace. We can take the help of different sections to tackle the problems of offense against a person, communication offense, harassment and restraining order. We have sections 18, 20 and 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. An offense against a person means when one person touches the body of a victim in an unlawful way, and this is also known as assault. There are some difficulties with these sections, these sections applied when something happened very seriously and under these sections, the victim needs to show an evidence if someone tries to harm her, fear or anxiety is not counted as harm. The first section 1, Malicious Communication Act 1988 And the second is section 127, Communication Act 2003, both the sections are used for the communication offense when someone sends the menacing message so he can scare and fear the receiver that something will happen wrong maybe this message is against the known of the receiver. The section 1 and section 127 both are the same, but section 127 is used widely because it includes all kind of public communication offenses and in this section, an offender can be imprisoned for the six …show more content…
A. Gillespie gave the law of tort and anti-social behavior that how we can use the civil law for them. The law of tort means when someone interferes with the comfort of the public. In this tort, there is one difficulty instead of focusing on a particular victim it mainly focuses on the public. In this law of tort Protection from Harassment Act 1997, can be used if a victim wants to take action against the offender. Another difficulty with the legislation is that it only works better for those cases in which proprietor is the known of the victim. The antisocial behavior is a civil law it has many advantages, this remedy not only for an individual but also the application by state and another one is that “subject will not have a criminal
Dr. Harper
English 100
22 October 2017
An article review of Alisdair A. Gillespie’s “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response”
Alisdair A. Gillespie’s article “Cyber-bullying and Harassment of Teenagers: The Legal Response” examines the extent of the cyberbullying and gives the legal response to tackle these problems. By the use of technology, anyone can threaten to an individual by sending the SMS and may use the picture of an individual for the advertisement of sexual service websites. The abuse of communication technology deeply affects the children and abuse is not only limited to this point. There are many threats of the technology such as cyber-stalking, cyberbullying. There is one charity that …show more content…
Gillespie discusses the legal solution to tackle this problem and law can be used for the better regulation of the cyberspace. We can take the help of different sections to tackle the problems of offense against a person, communication offense, harassment and restraining order. We have sections 18, 20 and 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. An offense against a person means when one person touches the body of a victim in an unlawful way, and this is also known as assault. There are some difficulties with these sections, these sections applied when something happened very seriously and under these sections, the victim needs to show an evidence if someone tries to harm her, fear or anxiety is not counted as harm. The first section 1, Malicious Communication Act 1988 And the second is section 127, Communication Act 2003, both the sections are used for the communication offense when someone sends the menacing message so he can scare and fear the receiver that something will happen wrong maybe this message is against the known of the receiver. The section 1 and section 127 both are the same, but section 127 is used widely because it includes all kind of public communication offenses and in this section, an offender can be imprisoned for the six …show more content…
A. Gillespie gave the law of tort and anti-social behavior that how we can use the civil law for them. The law of tort means when someone interferes with the comfort of the public. In this tort, there is one difficulty instead of focusing on a particular victim it mainly focuses on the public. In this law of tort Protection from Harassment Act 1997, can be used if a victim wants to take action against the offender. Another difficulty with the legislation is that it only works better for those cases in which proprietor is the known of the victim. The antisocial behavior is a civil law it has many advantages, this remedy not only for an individual but also the application by state and another one is that “subject will not have a criminal