SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Routine Activity Theory, Cybercrime, Cyberbullying
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Crimes on the internet, drug dealing, human trafficking, and smuggling have global effects. Global crimes are hard to regulate using national law enforcers. Many government do not cooperate in arresting suspects. Current judicial systems and law enforcement strategies cannot combat transnational crime. Cybercrime: increasingly common, hard to detect, prevent, and punish. For example, major hacks were not possible before digital banks. Police also increasingly use new technology to detect crime and pursue offenders. New methods for collecting and analyzing large data sets help police predict crime before it happens now. Most victims of cybercrime are individuals or small businesses who lack the funds to properly protect themselves. Big companies have the money to invest in cyber-defense systems. More and more people are victims of spam, phishing, scams, and viruse. Cyberbullying a new version of an old problem. Cyberbullying: a form of bullying or harassment using electronic forms of contact. Online harassment produces the same harmful effects as physical bullying: i. e. ,
