Cyberstalking

Cyberstalking is on the rise in the United States. It is just as serious as if someone was stalking you at your home or work. The problem with a cyberstalker is that you may not even realize you are being stalked until it gets too far out of hand. Also trying to catch a cyberstalker is more challenging than a normal stalker. The victim is a 15 year old girl that has was found by her cyberstalker on her Facebook page. This victim received a friends request and even though she did not…

identity theft, cyberstalking and child abuse. Identity theft can rob someone of their life savings, ruin credit ratings which can effect careers and weaken purchase power. Cyberstalking victims face tremendous stress living under a cloud of consistent threat to their life and their loved ones. Child abuse is perhaps the most devastating computer crime committed. Youth are the most vulnerable who experience emotional turmoil by their aggressors. In September 2014, Kevin…

their offense because their cognitive scripts help them learn and calculate the situation better. In street culture robbers like to feel feared so that nobody messes with them, it gives them some sort of position and respect in the streets. 2. Cyberstalking is a form of cyberbullying and it involves the use of the internet or other electronic…

of the situations use the same tactics by using the Internet. Cyberstalking happens when a person has evil-intentioned to harass with the target using direct communications through e-mails, chat rooms, Internet, text message and other electronic forms of digital communication or tools. Furthermore, the message content that are sent through Internet or online actions represent unwanted expressions or threatening behavior. The cyberstalking of using electronic may include sending frightening or…

1. As noted in table 1 of Hensen et al., the dependent variables are: • fear of cyberstalking by intimate partners • fear of cyberstalking by friends/acquaintances • fear of cyberstalking by strangers 2. The age coefficient in regarding fear of cyberstalking by an intimate partner as noted on table 2 is –0.11. Furthermore, the value associated with age in the section of intimate partner is noted with a single * so we know that p is less than or equal to 0.05. The value associated with the…

computer as an object, whether to gain profit or not, to the detriment of other parties. "Cyberstalking" means the use of the Internet or other electronic means to harass a person, group of persons, or an organization.Cyberstalking is the…

Stalking is something that has been around since the beginning of time. Men and women alike have been accused of a crime so because they either cannot get it out of their head that others do not want to have anything to do with them, or they just obsessed with a stranger. It is only recently that the US government has decided to implement stalking as a crime. This crime was labeled as harassment, annoyance, or domestic violence. It was not until the 80s and 90s of stalking cases that were…

While some sites concentrate on laws that defend victims age 18 and under, Working to Halt Online Abuse is a help resource comprising of a list of up-to-date and unresolved cyberstalking-related in the United States federal and state laws. In addition, it lists those states that do not have laws yet and associated laws from other countries. The Global Cyber Law Database (GCLD) wishes to become the most inclusive and influential…

legislations have been put in place but there is still a need for new laws to be implemented; the focus of cyberstalking legislation was a result of “perceived inadequacy” by parents of cyberbullying victims and legislators of existing laws, as the distinction between cyberbullying and cyberstalking is entirely in technicality, and the laws should treat both cyberbullying and cyberstalking s the same issue. Some states in the US have begun to pass legislation in response to incidents within that…

Aily Shimizu’s view on stalking specifically revolved around cyberstalking in her work of Recent Developments Domestic Violence in the Digital Age: Towards the Creation of a Comprehensive Cyberstalking Statute. She describes how much more dangerous for stalking has gotten to because of the digital technologies everyone has now. “Indeed, the Internet has provided a new vehicle by which individuals can commit the traditional act of stalking” (117). Due to the emphasis Shimizu set on the word…