SOC 3312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Compulsive Gamblers, Identity Theft, Sports Betting

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3312
• Professor: Sharla Colbert

Document Summary

Introduction: 1. 4 million americans have been victims of online credit card theft, almost no identity thefts lead to conviction, fastest-growing crime of the century. Internet deviance (cyberdeviance): the commission of a deviant act through the use of a computer: disrupting a computer network as a target, hacking, cyberterrorism, using the computer as a tool to commit deviant acts. Internet gamblers are younger, more likely to try new things, more educated, and more willing to bank online: online gamblers are more financially stable, traditional gamblers tend to keep on gambling when they cannot afford it. Expressing hate online: victim is usually someone whom the deviant knows. Incidence has declined: adolescents are much more likely to engage in hacking than adults, 99:1 male to female ratio, likely to come from dysfunctional families; experience parental neglect, conflict, divorce, or alcoholism; and experience physical abuse. A global perspective on cyberdeviance: cyberdeviance is borderless.