Evolution of cybercrime

    Cybercrime has doubled its development in the recent months and in the present day; it is regarded as one of the four biggest crime perils that are spreading across the world. It involves a variety of crimes and has therefore taken different forms that range from less severe to more severe and pricey attacks.  They are believed to cause forgery, fraud, and bullying. It utilizes the internet and the computer. This paper will, therefore, seek to present and explore cyber-bullying and how it has evolved over time. It will also seek to explore how technological advancement has contributed to increasing cyber-bullying.

    Cyber-bullying is a relatively new type of bullying that is gaining more and more notice in research and in media in regards to the recent events. Cyber-bullying is an observable fact that children and teenagers are increasingly using so as to intimidate others. The development of cyberspace intimidation has been identified to date far back as 1999. It is quite difficult to examine the extent of a cyber-bullying trend. This problem is not only confined to the US but it affects all people across the globe. There is a growing alarm raised by parents, teachers and the public in general about the teenagers’ harassment through the internet. Unfortunately, I am quite difficult to come up with interventions is due to the fact that the motivations and goals that empower the cyber bullies are comparatively unknown (Norden 2013).

    Throughout history, America has been formed by the public’s right to freedom of expression. Bullying has evolved from several insensitive comments communicated face to face to a multimedia relation that can be conveyed through multiple electronic devices.  Technology progression and innovations such as the internet have forever changed the human interaction. Traditionally, bullying was introduced in 1503s and it basically referred to the act of abusing someone either physically or even verbally with the intent of attaining superiority and power over the other victim. However, cyber-bullying has transformed over time and it has developed elements where it allows the bully to disguise his identity behind the computer. Thus it is much more difficult to recognize bullies in cyberspace. This element of bullies masking their identities offers them with a chance to say anything to the victim without thorough consideration of any repercussions. The violation of student’s 1st amendment rights is what initially ignited heated arguments concerning institutions restricting what the scholars would say or do on or off the institutions ground (Donegan 2012). The brutality caused by cyber-bullying on a national scale has led to many legislators to step in and combat the issue. After several suicides by several victims, several states have tried to implement laws for punishing those who would be convicted of a cyber-bullying crime.

            Technology has greatly contributed towards the development of cyber-bullying. It has presented new problems in combating bullying in our society. a large number of the entire world population, have phones and technological devices such as laptops and computers (Donegan 2012) . Thus people have easier access to the internet and as a result, cyber-bullying have become a big issue as it impacts a large group of people. In the present day, cyber-bullies have a new weapon that is the internet, which they are using to intimidate. Therefore, as technology is evolving, there are high chances that cyber-bullying is proliferating.

 

 

 

 

References

Donegan, R. (2012). Bullying and cyberbullying: History, statistics, law, prevention and   analysis. The Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications, 3(1), 33-42.

Norden, S. (2013). How the internet has changed the face of crime (Doctoral dissertation,             FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY).